Dimensions: 21 x 34 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: 'WŁODARSKI 1929'.
Origin:
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, March 2017
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Marek Włodarski (Henryk Streng) 1903-1960. monographic exhibition, National Museum in Warsaw, December 1981-January 1982
Literature
Marek Wlodarski (Henryk Streng) 1903-1960. monographic exhibition, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 1981, cat. no. IV.419
Biography
Studied at the Lviv Free Academy of Fine Arts and the State Industrial School under Kazimierz Sichulski and at the Paris Académie Moderne under Fernand Léger. He was fascinated by naïve provincial art, fair folk and funfair; he often used the motif of the man-mannequin. In 1930 he joined the ARTES group (members included: Jerzy Janisch, Mieczysław Wysocki, Aleksander Krzywobłocki, Ludwik Lille, Otto Hahn, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Aleksander Riemer). After the war, he taught at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He took part in the work of the Warsaw Club of Young Artists and Scientists, and participated in the Exhibition of Modern Art in Cracow (1948). His post-war work is an interesting counterpart to French and Italian lyrical abstraction.