Dimensions: 142 x 142 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'FANGOR | M 21 1970 | 56 x 56"'
on the reverse an exhibition sticker of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Laband Art Gallery
Condition
work documented in the archives of the Chalette Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC
the work included in the catalog raisonné edited by Katarzyna Jankowska-Cieślik, cat. no. P.780
Origins
Chalette Gallery, New York
collection of Hanna and Witold Sylwestrowicz, Bernardsville, USA (purchased directly from the above, 1970)
collection of Bohdan W. Oppenheim, Santa Monica, USA
private collection, Switzerland (purchase directly from the above)
Exhibited
Fangor, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 18.12.1970-31.01.1971; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, 4.04-9.05.1971; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, 6.07-22.08.1971
"Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 13.06-3.10.2004
"Escapes: Polish Art in the Communist Era," Loyola Marymount University, 3.01-21.03.2010
Literature
Fangor, exhibition catalog at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 1970, cat. no. 24, pp. 21 (il.), 29
Wojciech Fangor. Color and Space, [ed.] Magdalena Dabrowski, Milano 2018, cat. no. 136, pp. 142 (ill.), 219
Biography
During the occupation, he studied privately with Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski. He received his diploma at 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.