Dimensions: 180 x 110 cm
on the reverse a sticker with a description of the work, a Galerie de France sticker and export stamps
Origins
Galerie de France, Paris
private collection, Poland
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Tadeusz Kantor, Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, 5.10-20.12.1984
Tadeusz Kantor, Festival d'Avignon, Avignon, July 1985
"Tadeusz Kantor et après...", Collégiale Saint-Pierre-Le-Puellier, Orléans, 22.09-29.10.2000
"Painting the Thresholds on the 100th Anniversary of Tadeusz Kantor's Birth," Silesian Museum in Katowice, Katowice, 16.05-31.07.2015
Literature
compare: Tadeusz Kantor - Drawings from the collection of the Art Museum in Lodz, exhibition catalog, Municipal Art Gallery in Lodz, Bielska Gallery BWA, 2001
compare: Tadeusz Kantor - painting and sculpture, National Museum in Cracow, Cracow 1991, p. 16
Biography
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1939. He was one of the most outstanding representatives of the Polish artistic avant-garde of the post-war era, and above all the creator of the Polish avant-garde experimental underground theater, and from 1956 of the Cricot 2 theater in Cracow. He was a co-founder and member of the Group of Modern Artists in 1945. In 1955 he traveled to Paris, where he encountered the latest trends in world art. In his work, the main form of artistic expression was abstract painting, especially of the informel type, he was also involved in printmaking; he arranged happenings, was involved in stage design and film. He was active as a teacher: in 1948 and 1968 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and in 1961 at the academy in Hamburg. Among other awards, he won the Goethe Foundation Prize in 1978 in Switzerland.