Standing 407 cm tall and weighing over 3.6 tonnes, Tindaro Screpolato (1997) is one of Igor Mitoraj's most monumental public bronzes. The colossal fractured head — a blind giant whose horizontal slit-eyes recall an ancient blindfold, with a small Medusa-relief set into the base — spent nearly two decades at La Défense in Paris, commissioned by KPMG for their headquarters. In early 2025 it was sold at Polswiss Art in Warsaw for 6.89 million PLN, a record for any Mitoraj work sold in Poland. The buyer, real-estate developer NOHO Investment, committed to keeping the sculpture in public space: it is currently installed at Plac Defilad, between the Palace of Culture and Science and the Museum of Modern Art, before its planned permanent placement at the NOHO ONE development near Rondo Daszyńskiego.
Photo Gallery — Tindaro Screpolato at Plac Defilad
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Tindaro Screpolato & Warsaw
Tindaro Screpolato brings one of Mitoraj's most iconic motifs to Warsaw's most symbolic public square. Cast in 1997 and originally commissioned by KPMG for their La Défense campus in Paris, the 407 cm bronze spent roughly twenty years in France before appearing at Polswiss Art in Warsaw in early 2025, where it sold for 6.89 million PLN — a new Polish auction record for the artist and equivalent to approximately €1.6 million. The new owner, NOHO Investment, placed it at Plac Defilad between the Palace of Culture and Science and the newly opened Museum of Modern Art, where it has become one of the most-photographed sculptures in the city. Its eventual permanent home will be the NOHO ONE project near Rondo Daszyńskiego.
Collecting Mitoraj in Poland
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About This Collection
This site documents one private collector's search for works by Igor Mitoraj (1944–2014) — the Polish-French sculptor celebrated for his fractured classical figures in bronze and marble. Mitoraj studied in Kraków under Tadeusz Kantor, trained in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, and established his permanent studio in Pietrasanta, Tuscany in 1983. His work is held in public collections across Europe and the Americas, and his auction record — €6.89 million for a monumental Tindaro Screpolato at Sotheby's Paris in 2019 — places him among the most sought-after post-war European sculptors. If you have a Mitoraj work available, please use the contact button to get in touch.