acrylic/board, canvas
Dimensions: 146 x 120 cm
Signed p.d.: 'Kantor'
Signed, dated and described on the reverse: 't. Kantor | SIGNÉE | en 1989'
on the reverse a sticker from Galerie de France and a transport sticker
Origins
Galerie de France, Paris
Polswiss Art, 2004
Exhibited
"Métamorphoses," Galerie de France, Paris, 1982
"Tadeusz Kantor. Ma Création, Mon Voyage," Galerie de France, Paris, 1991
"Tadeusz Kantor, my creation, my journey", Season Museum of Art, Tokyo, 27.10-24.12.1994; Itami City Museum of Art, Hyogo, 4.01- 12.02.1994
"GK Collection #1", Art Stations Gallery, Poznań, 18.03-17.06.2007
Literature
"Métamorphoses," exhibition catalog, Galerie de France, Paris 1982
"Tadeusz Kantor. Ma Création, Mon Voyage", exhibition catalog, Galerie de France, introduction by Guy Scarpetta , Paris 1991, no. 28.
Tadeusz Kantor, My Creation, my journey, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Oka Shigemi, Suzuki Takashi, Tokyo, 1994
Paweł Leszkowicz, GK Collection #1, Poznań 2007, p. 209 (il.).
Biography
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1939. 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 of 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.
