Jan Cybis, KWIATY WAZONIE, 1939

50,0 x 39,3cm - oil, paper signed p.d.: Jan Cybis

On the reverse. (pencil, ink): 83 [in circle]; Jan Cybis - Krzemieniec | 50 x 39 |.

"Flowers in a vase" 39 year; also, p.g. sticker (in thin pencil): Tek I | 6.

On the so-called "back" (in red pen): "Flowers in a vase" 1939 ol. paper. 50 x 39 | p.d. Jan CYBIS.

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Jan Cybis (Wróblin in Opole Silesia 1897 - Warsaw 1972) began his studies in painting at the Academy of Art and Artistic Industry in Wroclaw (1920-1921). He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Jozef Pankiewicz. In 1924, together with a group of colleagues forming the so-called Paris Committee (abbreviated to "KP"; hence the group's name "Kapists"), he went to Paris, where he continued his studies initially in contact with Pankiewicz, and later on his own. In 1930 he took part in the first exhibition of the Kapists at Galerie Zak in Paris, later in a joint exhibition in Geneva, and after returning to Poland in 1931 also in a group exhibition at the Polish Art Club in Warsaw. In 1932 he had his first solo exhibition in Cracow. He was the main figure of the group, a promoter of assumptions that put forward the issue of color, which "was the content and form" of his paintings. His last exhibition at Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery provided an opportunity to trace his very consistent creative path. Rejecting all anecdote, he created paintings painted "with a plastic reason" - landscapes, still lifes, portraits. He was also a translator and art critic, and wrote articles, including for the Cracow-based "Voice of the Artists" In 1946 he became a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught until 1968 (with a break 1951-1957). In 1955 he also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sopot.