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Ed (Edwin) Mieczkowski (1929 Pittsburgh - 2017 Cleveland), "Model for Color Bloc # 2," 1966.

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Estimations: 16 751 - 25 127 EUR
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Size: 56 x 56 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: 'MIECZKOWSKI 66'

Origins
D. Wigmore Fine Arts Inc.
institutional collection, Poland
Desa Unicum, 2014

Biography
The artist is counted among the founders of op-art, although he himself never liked the term. His works explored the visual and psychological interactions of colors, shapes and patterns.
He graduated in 1957 from the Cleveland Institute of Art, BFA, and in 1959 from Carnegie Tech. MFA. He taught at the Faculty Cleveland Institute of Art since 1959 and at Western Reserve University since 1963.
In 1960 Mieczkowski, together with Ernst Benkert and Francis Hewitt, founded the Anonima Group of artists (1960-71). They opposed extreme consumerism and the adaptation of artists and their art to the needs of the viewer. The goal of their work was the precise investigation of scientific phenomena and the psychology of optical perception. Painting activity was also accompanied by writing activity, in the form of proposals, projects and manifestos.
In 1966, the works of the Anonima Group artists were exhibited at Warsaw's Foksal Gallery in the exhibition "Black, White and Gray Paintings." The work on display is from this exhibition. Presenting such radical exhibitions in communist Poland, the Foksal Gallery was considered one of the most important venues for avant-garde art in the world.

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Grażyna Kulczyk Collection. Avant-garde
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18 October 2022 CEST/Warsaw
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16 751 - 25 127 EUR
Hammer price
16 332 EUR
Hammer price without Byuer's Premium
13 610 EUR
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120%
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DESA Unicum

Grażyna Kulczyk Collection. Avant-garde
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