Halina Chrostowska (1929 Warsaw - 1990 Warsaw), "Acrobat", 1957.

etching/paper
Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm (clear passe-partout)
signed, dated, described and numbered in pencil at the bottom: 'Acrobat 8/10 Chrostowska 57'
on the reverse stamps of the Conservator's Office with signature

Condition
framed

Provenance
family collection, Poland-France (gift of the artist in the 1960s)

Literature
Cf.

Halina Chrostowska, cat. of exhibitions, CBWA Zachęta, Warsaw 1957, cat. item 34, nlb (il.), online: https://zacheta.art.pl/public/upload/mediateka/pdf/5a0c478e01cac.pdf [accessed 13.12.2023].

Halina Chrostowska, ed. by Jan Białostocki, Artistic and Graphic Publishing House, Warsaw 1962, nlb (il.).

Halina Chrostowska, ed. by Maryla Sitkowska, Monika Chipczyńska, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, P.P. National Publishing Agency, Warsaw 2000, pp. 10-11, 112.

Biography
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She received her diploma in 1952. An outstanding master of printmaking, she taught printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw for many years. Around 1956 a new tendency in Chrostowska's work became apparent, namely a passion for formal and technical experimentation, which in time led her to blur the boundaries between printmaking and painting.