Jerzy Faczynski (1917-1994), Portrait of V. N.
Black ink with white accents on paper, 33 x 24 cm (framed 44 x 34 cm),
Signed "J. F." in lower left corner, Title in lower right corner "Portrait of V. N.".
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Jerzy Faczynski - painter, architect and poet. Born in 1917 in Rykovo, Ukraine, died in 1994 in Liverpool. In 1936 he began his studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. During World War II he served on the Hungarian front, later in the Polish Air Force in the UK. After the war he settled in Liverpool, where he worked as an architect and created drawings, prints, watercolors, oil paintings, stained glass and woodcuts.