Dimensions: 100.5 x 100.5 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'FANGOR | B 2 1964'
Condition
the work is included in the catalog raisonné edited by Katarzyna Jankowska-Cieślik, cat. no. P.408
Provenance
private collection, Cologne
Galerie Springer, Berlin
private collection, southern Germany
Lempertz, Cologne, 2004
Olga and Wojciech Fibak collection
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Fangor, Galerie Springer, Berlin, 1-30.10.1965
Literature
Fangor, exhibition catalog at Galerie Springer, Berlin 1965, cat. no. 28 (as 'B 20'), pp. nlb. (il.)
New paintings. Collection of Olga and Wojciech Fibak, [ed.] Cezary Ślaziński, Warsaw 2010, p. 39 (il.).
Biography
During the occupation he studied privately with Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski. He received his diploma from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1946. For the Youth and Students Festival in Warsaw, together with Henryk Tomaszewski, he designed an open-air spatial decoration. From then on, the painting works were realized in relation to the space outside the painting - as in the famous "Study of Space" from 1958, preceding the worldwide realization of environments. The painting installations of the 1950s and 1960s, composed of colorful contrasting circles and waves, touched on optical problems and were close to op-art. The culmination of this period was a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1970). He taught at universities in England and the US. His works are in major collections around the world.
