Dimensions: 100 x 120 cm
signed p.d.: 'Kantor'
Signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'T. KANTOR | IV 1958 | CRACOVIE | POLOGNE | le titre: | "PEINTURE".
on the reverse a transport sticker EXPOSITIONS Natural Le Coultre SA Geneva, New Art Center Gallery in New York and Fibak Gallery
Origins
New Art Center, New York
Private collection (purchased directly from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 2009
Wojciech Fibak collection
private collection, Europe
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 the Cricot 2 theater in Krakow. 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.
