Dimensions: 73 x 97 cm
signed monogram l.d.: 'WT'.
inscribed by the artist on the reverse, on the painting's loom an exhibition sticker of the Museum of Wielkopolska in Poznañ and a sticker with a description of the work
Origins
owned by the artist in Cracow
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Wacław Taranczewski retrospective exhibition, National Museum in Poznań, 1958.
Group exhibition of Waclaw Taranczewski, Museum of Wielkopolska, Poznan, November 1949
Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Waclaw Taranczewski, Salon 35, Poznan, autumn 1936 (item 1)
Exhibition of the group "Pryzmat", House of Artists, Cracow, winter 1934
Literature
Joanna Pollakówna, Polish Painting between the Wars 1918-1939, Warsaw 1982, item 125 (il.).
Zdzisław Kępiński, Wacław Taranczewski, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Poznań, Poznań 1958, item 4 (ill.).
Waclaw Taranczewski group exhibition, Museum of Wielkopolska, Poznan 1949, item 3.
Biography
Studied at the School of Decorative Arts in Poznan and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the studios of F. Pautsch and F. S. Kowarski. At the end of the 1920s he moved to Warsaw. Here he debuted in 1932 at the Second Salon of the IPS. He was a member of the Pryzmat group. After the war, he stayed in Poznan and Krakow, with which he became permanently associated. From his youth he was interested in abstraction; during his studies in Krakow he had contacts with the Futurists. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and was also the author of polychrome paintings (including in the churches of St. Mary and St. Martin in Poznan). In Paris he entered the circle of colorism, whose color palette he maintained in the following years of his work, although with a strong limitation of the colors used. The artist's compositions were characterized by the reduction of figures or objects to a synthetic sign, preserving the decorative function of the painting.