Dimensions: 203 x 203 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'FANGOR | M 39 1969'
on the reverse, stickers from The Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Fibak Gallery in Warsaw, Sotheby's New York and descriptions in marker: 'Fangor 341.10 (TOP) | Fangor | #16 (B01M0M)'.
State of preservation
work listed in the catalog raisonné edited by Katarzyna Jankowska-Cieślik, cat. no. P.709
Provenance
collection of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Private collection, Morristown, New Jersey
Sotheby's New York, 2007
collection of Wojciech Fibak, Monte Carlo
DESA Unicum, 2018
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
"Fangor," solo exhibition at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 18.12.1970-07.02.1971
"Fangor," solo exhibition, Fort Worth Center Museum, Fort Worth (Texas), 4.04-9.05.1971
"Fangor", solo exhibition, University Art Museum, Berkeley (California), 4.07-15.09.1971
"Fangor", Fibak Gallery, Warsaw, 24.06-25.07.2007
"Selection. Tadeusz Brzozowski, Wojciech Fangor, Jan Tarasin, Tomasz Ciecierski, Włodzimierz Jan Zakrzewski, Leon Tarasewicz", State Art Gallery in Sopot, Sopot, 12.08.-10.10.2010
"Wojciech Fangor. Space as a Game", National Museum in Krakow, 20.10.2012-20.01.2013
"Wojciech Fangor. Winner of the Jan Cybis Award for 2014", DAP Gallery, House of the Visual Artist, Warsaw, 6.11-15.12.2015
"Contemporary art from the collection of Wojciech Fibak", Len Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, 23.06-26.08.2018
"Fangor. Beyond the Image," National Museum in Gdansk, 7.10.2022-12.03.2023
Literature
Fangor, cat. exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 1970, item 16, p. 18 (il.).
New paintings. Collection of Olga and Wojciech Fibak, edited by Cezary Slazinski, Fibak Gallery, Warsaw 2010, p. 63 (ill., cover)
Wojciech Fangor. Space as a Game, exhibition catalog, ed. Stefan Szydłowski, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow 2013, pp. 10-11, 413 (ill.)
Fangor. Color and Space, ed. Magdalena Dabrawski, Milan 2018, p. 125 (ill.)
Contemporary Art from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, cat. exhibition, ed. by Inga Kopciewicz, Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz 2018, p. 101 (il.)
Fangor. Beyond the Image, National Museum in Gdańsk, invitations, promotional materials of the exhibition Fangor. Beyond the Image, cat. exhibition, ed. by Daria Majewska, National Museum in Gdansk 2022, cat. no. 76, pp. 112-113, 213 (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, he designed an open-air spatial decoration together with Henryk Tomaszewski. 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.
