Size: 19 x 29 cm (according to the passe-partout)
signed p.d.: 'MPiwowarska'.
Biography
After graduating from the Slowacki High School in Warsaw, she entered the School of Decorative Arts and Painting on Mysliwiecka Street at the instigation of Mewa Lunkiewicz (Maria Ewa Lunkiewicz-Rogoyska). In 1939 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department under Prof. Felicjan Kowarski. Initially, she was mainly interested in landscape, portraiture especially of children, and also created pacifier dolls and toy designs. Influenced by her friendship with Henryk Stażewski, she focused on abstraction from 1962, and soon transferred these experiences to her work in fabric. Inspired by Maria Łaszkiewiczowa, she joined the Experimental Studio of ZPAP, where the beginnings of the successes of Polish artistic textiles were born, including Magdalena Abakanowicz. She practiced portrait and abstract painting, as well as artistic fabric - tapestries. She was the recipient of numerous ng awards. her works are in the collections of major Polish museums and in private collections.
