Why Sikorski Died
Why Sikorski Died

Why Sikorski Died

Painting
ID:
1835
Cycle:
Sportsmen (XV)
Number in cycle:
157
Ending number:
862
Date:
May 1983
Medium:
canvas;oil
Dimensions:
146 cm x 114 cm
Description:
In 1983 we ate dinner in a restaurant in Poznan and two drunken guys were sitting at a table nearby. They kept saying: "why Sikorski died, why Sikorski died". The plane crash on Gibraltar in 1943 in which general Władysław Sikorski (Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile) died was, and still is today, a splinter in the hearts of Poles and constantly returns in private conversations in Poland. People still believe in conspiracy theories regarding this case, and other, too. Polish people do not believe in unfortunate accidents and circumstances. (T.G.)
Owner type:
private
Related Events:
Edward Dwurnik. Arbeiten ab 1972. Galerie Walter Bischoff. Stuttgart, 1994
Tags:
alcohol;commemoration;general;man;military;Polish people;portrait