Muszanka-Łakomska Janina (1920-1982), Characters, 1960s.

Oil, plywood; dimensions: 90 x 32 cm; not signed

Painter. Studied in Cracow at the Institute of Fine Arts (textile department) and at the Academy of Fine Arts (painting). Long-time lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She has made numerous artistic journeys, including: to Turkey, Austria and the Balkans. She painted mainly compositions on the verge of abstraction, in oil, collage and drawing techniques. At the turn of the l. 50s and 60s she created a precursor series of collages ("Friezes"). In a series of colorful drawings from the late 1960s, she embarked on a path of very personal surrealism.

Provenance:

- private collection Cracow
- collection of the artist's family