--- title: "Igor Mitoraj — Bobrowiecka Sculptures, Warsaw" description: "Igor Mitoraj sculpture on Bobrowiecka Street, Warsaw — permanent bronze installation. Collector buying Mitoraj works directly." canonical: https://mitoraj-search.com/mitoraj-bobrowiecka.html license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ credit: mitoraj-search.com generator: gen-md-alternates --- M Skip to content CONTACT Bronze Sculptures Lithographs & Drawings Works Index Mitoraj in Warsaw Bobrowiecka Contact EN FR DE IT ES NL SV NO PL 日本語 PT עברית OTHER ARTISTS Stryjeńska Kossak Hofman Witold-K EN FR DE IT ES NL SV NO PL 日本語 PT עברית ![Grande Toscano by Igor Mitoraj — ul. Bobrowiecka 6, Mokotów, Warsaw](https://mitoraj-search.com/images/mitoraj-bobrowiecka-1w.webp) 🇵🇱 Warsaw · Mokotów · Bobrowiecka 6 · Polpharma # Igor Mitoraj Grande Toscano Bobrowiecka Do you own a Mitoraj work? Sell it → Send photos via WhatsApp Scan with your phone camera to open WhatsApp — then send photos directly. sukaiqun@gmail.com +48 575 967 063 A five-metre bronze torso — the third and final cast in the world, unveiled personally by Igor Mitoraj on 10 September 2009. Own this piece? ✉ Email ☎ +48 575 967 063 ~1 min read The Sculpture ## Grande Toscano — Warsaw, 2009 At ul. Bobrowiecka 6 in Warsaw's Mokotów district, in front of the **Spectra** building, stands one of the most significant Mitoraj bronzes in Poland: **Grande Toscano**, a five-metre male torso cast in bronze and installed on 10 September 2009. Mitoraj was present in person for the unveiling. Within the torso's chest, a woman's face — named **Aleksandra**, who had been an inspiration to the artist for many years — is revealed, embedded in the bronze as if glimpsed through the body of the figure itself. The title pays homage to **Donatello** and to **Tuscany**, the Italian region where Mitoraj lived and worked for much of his life. This is the **third and final cast** of Grande Toscano. The first two stand in **Paris (La Défense)** and **Milan**. The Warsaw cast was commissioned and funded through the cultural patronage programme of **Polpharma**, one of Poland's largest pharmaceutical companies. According to the original documentation, Mitoraj cast the first Grande Toscano using his first earned income — a detail that speaks to the personal significance he attached to the work from the very beginning. ### Grande Toscano Bronze · 5 metres · 2009 · 3rd and final cast · Polpharma, Warsaw A monumental male torso in bronze — five metres tall — whose chest conceals the face of a woman named Aleksandra, who inspired Mitoraj for many years. The title is an act of homage: to Donatello, the Florentine master who cast the first great bronze nudes of the Renaissance, and to Tuscany, the landscape that shaped Mitoraj's mature work. Only three casts of Grande Toscano exist in the world. The Warsaw example is the last. Its presence in front of the Spectra building on Bobrowiecka — a Warsaw corporate address — gives the work an unusual framing: the heroic, naked torso of classical antiquity rises against the glass and steel of the modern business district, carrying within it a private face, a woman remembered. Source: [puszka.waw.pl — Grande Toscano documentation](https://puszka.waw.pl/grande_toscano-projekt-pl-3883.html) Address ul. Bobrowiecka 6 02-517 Warsaw, Poland Mokotów district Patron Polpharma Cultural patronage programme → Google Maps Access Publicly visible from the street No admission required · Open 24 hours 52.2132, 21.0022 Sculpture Grande Toscano · Bronze 5 metres · Installed 10 September 2009 3rd & final cast worldwide ![Grande Toscano by Igor Mitoraj — front view, ul. Bobrowiecka 6 Warsaw — 2010, bronze sculpture](https://mitoraj-search.com/images/mitoraj-bobrowiecka-2w.webp) Front view — five-metre torso, Mokotów, Warsaw ![Grande Toscano — Igor Mitoraj, Bobrowiecka Warsaw, full sculpture — 2010, bronze sculpture](https://mitoraj-search.com/images/mitoraj-bobrowiecka-3w.webp) Full scale — the torso against the Spectra building facade ![Grande Toscano detail — Igor Mitoraj, Aleksandra face within chest — 2010, bronze sculpture](https://mitoraj-search.com/images/mitoraj-bobrowiecka-4w.webp) Detail — the face of Aleksandra embedded within the torso ![Grande Toscano — Igor Mitoraj, side view, Warsaw — 2010, bronze sculpture](https://mitoraj-search.com/images/mitoraj-bobrowiecka-5w.webp) Side view — bronze surface and patina ![Grande Toscano — Igor Mitoraj, Bobrowiecka 6, Warsaw — 2010, bronze sculpture](https://mitoraj-search.com/images/mitoraj-bobrowiecka-6w.webp) Context — sculpture in front of Spectra building ![Grande Toscano — Igor Mitoraj, view from above, Warsaw — 2010, bronze sculpture](https://mitoraj-search.com/images/mitoraj-bobrowiecka-7w.webp) View from above — the sculptural mass and setting Additional Angles ![Grande Toscano — Igor Mitoraj, rear view, Warsaw — 2010, bronze sculpture](https://mitoraj-search.com/images/mitoraj-bobrowiecka-8w.webp) Rear surface — bronze with natural weathering ![Grande Toscano — Igor Mitoraj, Polpharma Bobrowiecka Warsaw inscription — 2010, bronze sculpture](https://mitoraj-search.com/images/mitoraj-bobrowiecka-9w.webp) Plaque and inscription — Polpharma cultural patronage ![Grande Toscano — Igor Mitoraj, dramatic low angle, Warsaw — 2010, bronze sculpture](https://mitoraj-search.com/images/mitoraj-bobrowiecka-10w.webp) Looking up at the torso — the scale against the Warsaw sky Three Casts Worldwide ## Grande Toscano in Paris, Milan & Warsaw Only three casts of **Grande Toscano** were made. The first stands in **[Paris at La Défense](/mitoraj-paris.html)**, the French capital's monumental business district; the second in **[Milan](/mitoraj-milan-en.html)**; the third — and last — here in Warsaw on Bobrowiecka, installed in September 2009. That Mitoraj chose Warsaw for the final cast, and unveiled it personally, reflects the depth of his connection to Poland — the country of his birth, and one where his public presence grew significantly in the final decade of his life. The work joins the *Ikaro Alato* at the Olympic Centre on Żoliborz as one of two major Mitoraj bronzes commissioned for Warsaw through Polpharma's cultural patronage programme. Mitoraj in Warsaw — full overview → Private Collector ## Do You Own a Work by Mitoraj? Any edition, any condition, any size. I respond personally within 24 hours, with complete discretion. 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