Portrait of Svend Lassen (1934)
The copy of the work shows Szukalski's drawing composition - a portrait of a friend from California, biochemist Svend Lassen. This drawing remained among other works in the studio in Poland, and the artist believed that his remaining works had been stolen by the communist governments. The photographic version of the portrait was probably made during the Szukalski and Rogate Heart exhibition, Kraków (1936), where its cartoon version was displayed (item 380 in the exhibition catalog). The photograph also remained in the country and was found only after many years in the south of Poland. The artist regarded the human face as a "passport" of personality and an "introduction" to its study. He admired Lassen's face and included it in The Anthropolitical Motivations (1979) as an illustration of the "Human Type" as opposed to the "A-human". Lenin, Marx and Hitler.
