Dimensions: 41.7 x 57.4 cm (sheet)
Signed and dated in pencil underneath: 'Jurkiewicz | 37'
Origin
legacy of the artist
collection of the artist's heirs, Warsaw
Literature
cf. Andrzej Jurkiewicz 1907-1967, exhibition catalog, ed. Maryla Sitkowska, Warsaw 1980, p. 82, item III.7, fig. 1
Biogram
Graphic artist and illustrator; professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and Warsaw. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under F. Pautsch and W. Weiss. Created a series of prints - etchings depicting street scenes and sports-themed prints, maintained in an economical style, cover designs, illustrations, ex-librises; at the end of his life turned to abstraction. He was the author of the textbook "Methods of Artistic Graphics."