Dimensions: 30 x 41 cm
Signed p.d.: 'A. Wroblewski'; numbered p.g.: '1224'
Inscribed on the reverse: 'Cycle: Athletics | gouache 30 x 41 1957 | Mr. and Mrs. B.S. Kruszynom | Teresa.
Wróblewska | Tarnów 17 May 1978' and a sticker with a description of the work
Literature
Andrzej Wróblewski. Posthumous Exhibition, Palace of Art, Cracow 1958, p. 67, item 1283-1289
(as Athletics)
Andrzej Wróblewski. Waiting Room, edited by Magdalena Ziolkowska, Wojciech Grzybala,
Warsaw-Ostfildren 2020, p. 200, il. 92
Biography
From 1945-52 studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and art history at the Jagiellonian University. From 1946 he participated in exhibitions, and from 1948 he also engaged in journalism, mainly in the field of art. From 1950-54 he served as an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studios of Prof. Radnicki and Prof. Rudzka-Cybisowa, among others. He died on March 23, 1957 on a solitary excursion in the Tatra Mountains. In his works, using an original and fascinating painterly language, he spoke in a highly evocative way of the tragic experiences of a generation growing up during the war and entering maturity in Stalinist times. Considered a forerunner of new figuration, contemporary realism, also new expression, he is among the greatest Polish painters of the 20th century.