Eugeniusz Markowski, Due, 1985

oil, canvas, 135 x 110 cm signed l.g.: E. Markowski; dated and described on the stretcher: 1963-1969 [crossed out]"DUE 69 [number crossed out] " 77. 110x135 1985 6.

provenance: private collection, Warsaw
exhibited: Eugeniusz Markowski, DAP Gallery OW ZPAP, Warsaw, March 8-April 3, 2005; Eugeniusz Markowski. Homo Sapiens, Piękna Gallery, Warsaw, 2016
Reproduced in the cat. of the above exhibitions: DAP Gallery p. 66.; Piękna Gallery, p. 9.

Eugeniusz Markowski (1912 - 2007) Painter, illustrator, professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He participated in many solo exhibitions and significant group exhibitions at home and abroad, including: 1000 Years Polish Art at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1970; Kunsthalle Mannhaim in 1973; Polish Contemporary Painting at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico in 1975. In 1963 Markowski represented Poland at the São Paulo Biennale.

Art critics point to Soutine, Nolde, Grosz, Dubuffet and Kokoschka as artists close to Markowski, especially his power of expression and way of seeing the world. Bożena Kowalska even believes that with his violent paintings Markowski foreshadowed (almost twenty years in advance) the Neue Wilde movement. As M. Rosiak wrote: "insane and wild, more radical and subversive than the most radical and subversive painting of the young."

Markowski's works are in important museum and private collections around the world, including the Museu de Arte Moderna in São Paulo, D'Arcy Gallery in New York, the Museum of Art in Lodz, and the National Museums in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan and Wroclaw.