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Stryjeńska's work is widely known and easily recognisable. There is hardly a Pole who has not been exposed to her paintings, which until the 1970s were reproduced - usually shoddily and without quoting her name - on countless chocolate boxes, plates or postcards. In fact, already between the two wars many artists imitated Stryjeńska's distinctive style, thereby trivialising the originals. Zofia Stryjeńska, née Lubańska (1891-1976), received her education in private artistic schools in her native Cracow and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She made her debut under her maiden name in 1912, when she exhibited a series of cartons entitled Polish Fables; a year later she painted a series of watercolours illustrating Polish Christmas carols. During World War ...