Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.5 cm
Signed p.d.: 'jms.
Origin
Auction House Les Enchères du Midi - Clertan & Boissellier, Béziers, France, July 2023
private collection, Poland
Biography
Painter, graphic artist, cartoonist, illustrator, theatrical, film and television set designer, actor, columnist, satirist, educator, professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, artistic director of the State Publishing Institute, first artistic director of Polish Television, co-creator of weekly magazines for children: "Przygoda" and "Świerszczyk", expert in theater, music, literature. Excellent illustrator of children's books. Friend and collaborator of Jan Brzechwa, whose books were full of Szancer's painterly imagination. He illustrated more than 240 books, including Tuwim, Krasicki, Mickiewicz, Fredro, Prussia, Sienkiewicz, Andersen, Collodi, Hoffman.