Mieczyslaw Janikowski, COMPOSITION, 1960s.

16,0 x 8,0 cm - oil, fiberboard glued on plywood signed on the reverse on the board: Janikowski
on plywood middleground in green marker: 5M. next to lead: 750 [in circle] and two stickers g.: 19, d.: 3 [crossed out].

♣ to the price auctioned, in addition to other costs, will be added a fee resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Law of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)

Mieczyslaw Tadeusz Janikowski (Zaleszczyki, Ukraine 1912 - Krakow 1968) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1934-1939. He fought in the September campaign. Through Hungary he got to France, then to England. At the end of the war he fought in General Maczek's Armored Division and was wounded. In 1945-1947 he continued his art studies at the College of Art in Edinburgh. From 1947 he stayed in Paris. Since 1962 he visited Poland regularly and participated in national exhibitions and artistic life. His work evolved from realism, through colorism, to which he paid homage just after the war, when he succumbed to a fascination with French art, especially Matisse and Bonnard, to abstractionism. He gradually simplified his compositions to the point of color and formal asceticism in his late period. From 1955 to 1966, he participated in the "Réalites Nouvelles" Salons. His works are represented in leading Polish collections, including national museums in Krakow, Poznan and Warsaw, the Museum of Art in Lodz, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Radom.