Paderewski the Artist
Malvina Cornell Hoffman American
In 1922 Hoffman met the renowned Polish pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941) while visiting Switzerland. Paderewski, also a statesman, was attending sessions at the League of Nations in Geneva; there Hoffman studied his features and began to prepare a portrait bust of him. Later, in New York, Hoffman created a portrait Paderewski the Statesman (1922; Steinway Hall, New York) and a bust that represented his artistic persona. Upon seeing it in Hoffman’s studio, Paderewski approvingly called it "a portrait of my inner self lost in my music."
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