Dimensions: 73 x 54 cm
each part signed p.d.: 'T. Kantor' together with the author's stamp
each part signed and dated on the reverse: 'Kantor | 1966 | series of 3 paintings' together with serial numbers
on each part stickers from Galerie de France with inventory numbers
and exhibition stickers: Whitechapel Gallery in London and Kulturhuset in Stockholm stamp of Henie Ostand Kunstcenter in Oslo
Origins
Galerie de France, Paris
private collection, Lodz
Silesian Museum in Katowice, Gallery of Polish Art, 2016-2019 (deposit)
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Tadeusz Kantor, Henie Ostand Kunstcenter, Oslo, 1973
"Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages", Museum of Art in Lodz, Lodz, 25.05-29.06.1975
"Polish Constructivism 1923-1936: Tadeusz Kantor. Jerzy Krawczyk: Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages"
Galleriet, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 31.10.1975-6.01.1976
"Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages 1960-1976", Whitechapel Gallery, London, 22.09-31.10.1976
"Le opere di Tadeusz Kantor. Pittori di Cricot 2: Maria Jarema, Maria Stangret, Zbigniew Gostomski, Kazimierz Mikulski,
Andrzej Welminski, Roman Siwulak. Il Teatro Cricot 2", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 27.01-04.03.1979
Tadeusz Kantor - Métamorphoses (peintures, objects, dessins 1947-1981) - Maria Stangret (pièces), Galerie de France, Paris, 1982.
Painting the Thresholds on the 100th Anniversary of Tadeusz Kantor's Birth, Silesian Museum, Katowice, 2015
Silesian Museum, Katowice, permanent exhibition, 2016-2019
Literature
Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages, exhibition catalog, Museum of Art in Lodz, Lodz 1975, cat. no. 5, 6, 7 (section "FIGURES")
Polskt konstruktivism 1923-1936: Tadeusz Kantor. Jerzy Krawczyk: Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages, exhibition catalog,
Galleriet, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 1975, cat. no. 10, 11, 12 (section "Teckningar"), pp. 5 (il. "Divisions III"), 14
Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages 1960-1976, exhibition catalog, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1976, cat. nos. 11, 12, 13 (section
"FROM SECTIONS"), p. 11 (il. "Divisions III").
Wieslaw Borowski, Tadeusz Kantor, Warsaw, 1982, p. 67, cat. no. 97 (ill., as a work from the series "Bags (divisions); drawings, 1964")
Le opere di Tadeusz Kantor. Pittori di Cricot 2: Maria Jarema, Maria Stangret, Zbigniew Gostomski, Kazimierz Mikulski, Andrzej Welmiński, Roman Siwulak. Il Teatro Cricot 2, exhibition catalog, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome 1979, p. 94, item cat. 1, 2, 3 (section: "Dal ciclo: Sezioni")
Biography
In 1939 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He was one of the most prominent representatives of the Polish artistic avant-garde of the post-war era, and above all the creator of the Polish avant-garde experimental underground theater, and from 1956 the Cricot 2 theater in Cracow. He was a co-founder and member of the Group of Modern Artists in 1945. In 1955 he traveled to Paris, where he encountered the latest trends in world art. In his work, the main form of artistic expression was abstract painting, especially of the informel type, he was also involved in printmaking; he arranged happenings, was involved in stage design and film. He was active as a teacher: in 1948 and 1968 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and in 1961 at the academy in Hamburg. Among other awards, he won the Goethe Foundation Prize in 1978 in Switzerland.
