Dimensions: 180 x 69 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'FANGOR 1962 | TWO RAINBOWS'.
State of preservation
work listed in catalog raisonné edited by Katarzyna Jankowska-Cieślik, cat. no. 309
Provenance
private collection, USA
Sotheby's, New York
Exhibited
"Everyone is a nobody to someone," Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, 15.02-15.06.2014
Literature
Wojciech Fangor. Space as a Game, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Stefan Szydłowski, Krakow 2012, p. 108 (ill.)
Everybody is nobody for somebody, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Blanca Gómez Mosquete, Madrid 2014, pp. 50-53 (ill.)
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.
