relief, mixed technique, panel, 30 x 30 cm signed, dated and described on the reverse: no. 67 - 1975/H. Stażewski/ illegible stamp
provenance: gift of the artist to Armelle Dłubak - wife of Zbigniew Dłubak; collection of the daughter of Armelle Dłubak and Zbigniew Dłubak; private collection USA
reproduced: ed. by J. Wach, Chris Sztyber My other world. A Collection of Polish Painting, Kielce, p. 210.
Henryk Stażewski (1894, Warsaw - 1988, Warsaw) Henryk Stażewski studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts under Stanislaw Lentz. In 1923 he participated in Formist exhibitions and the Exhibition of New Art in Vilnius. He belonged to avant-garde groups: Blok, Praesens, a.r., Cercle et Carré, Abstraction-Création. He co-founded the international collection of modern art at the Museum of Art in Lodz. After the war, he was associated with the Crooked Circle Gallery in Warsaw. He was one of the initiators of the Foksal Gallery. He was one of the pioneers of the Polish avant-garde, a representative of Constructivism and the geometric abstraction trend. He participated in many foreign exhibitions, including: Centre Pompidou in Paris, Royal Academy in London, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Milan, Madrid, Rome or Zurich.
Abstract art (...) is the sum of impressions and observations, it is a sense of the climate of modernity, an expression of the dynamism of today's life, a lyrical image of the era in which upheavals caused by great social movements, inventions and discoveries are taking place, the era of breaking the atomic pile, etc. All this is causing fundamental changes in the nature of our lives and must find resonance in art and create new means of artistic expression - Henryk Stażewski.
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