Zbigniew Makowski (1930-2019), Untitled (Nihil est ab omni parte beatum), 1975
Watercolor, gouache and ink on paper, 56 x 76 cm (paper) / 76 x 96 cm (frame). Small losses on the frame.
Signed and dated at top, title at top left, artist's monogram at lower left.
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Zbigniew Makowskiwas born in 1930 in Warsaw. From 1950 to 1956, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Kazimierz Tomorowicz. In the 1960s, he met André Breton and the Surrealist milieu in Paris, with whom he felt connected. In 1973, he received the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Art Criticism Award, and in 1992 he was honored with the Jan Cybis Award. His composition Mirabilitas secundum diversos modos exire potest a rebus was donated by the Polish government to the Geneva headquarters of the United Nations.
