"Cyklista" [Cyclist] stick push toy

Students of Antoni Kenar at Państwowe Liceum Technik Plastycznych [Secondary School for Arts and Technology] in Zakopane, one of them being Władysław Hasior, trained in wood carving techniques. In the late 1940s, a series of wooden products inspired by traditional folk toys, namely mobile toys on wheels moved by a steering push stick, were commissioned by Biuro Nadzoru Estetyki Produkcji (Production Aesthetics Supervision Bureau). The funny and expressive "Cyclist" announces the disobedient character of author's later works.