Description
Oil, cardboard; 24 x 57 cm (light frame)
Signed l.d.: W. Lam
Asking price 7500
Estimate 9000 - 10000
◙ droit de suite
Auction 209, 29.01.2022
Vladislav LAM
1893 Konjic - 1984 Gdansk
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under T. Axentowicz and J. Mehoffer. Between the wars he taught drawing at the Faculty of Architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic. After the war, he settled on the coast and held the chair of drawing, painting and sculpture at the Gdansk University of Technology, he also taught at the Sopot State Higher School of Fine Arts. He participated in international exhibitions and had numerous exhibitions in Poland. A member of the groups Świt, Plastyka, Awangarda. He practiced painting, drawing and graphic techniques, and presented the theory of painting and drawing in several published books. The subjects of his works were landscape, figural compositions, portraits. After 1956, he painted paintings classified as allusive abstraction.