Description
Gouache, cardboard; height 34 cm
Bozzetto figures for Wojciech Fangor exhibition: An Exhibition, Center of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, 2005.
Wojciech FANGOR
1922 Warsaw - 2015 Warsaw
During the war he studied privately with T. Pruszkowski and F. S. Kowarski, and graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1946. He was an avant-garde painter and graphic artist. Initially he tried to find his own formula of socialist realism (Mother Korean, 1951). Until 1955, he participated in the official artistic life of the People's Republic of Poland. Discouraged by Socialist Realism, he turned to posters and graphics, then sought his own artistic formula, painting pictures of simplified forms. In 1958, in Warsaw, he made a forerunner to environments, a spatial composition using his paintings (the exhibition Study of Space, together with S. Zamecznik). It was then that he began to paint abstract paintings pulsating with colors, giving the impression of movement. In the early 1960s he went abroad and in 1966 settled permanently in the USA, where he combined his experiments as an abstractionist with figurative painting close to hyperrealism. In 1999 he returned to the country. He lived and created in Blędowo. He is one of the few Polish artists of the post-war period who were ahead of their time on a global scale with their work. He is also to date the only Polish artist to have had a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Asking price 35000
Estimate 45000 - 50000
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