Kupczynski Zbigniew, Two apples [abstract expressionism], drawing

Sheet with abstract pencil drawing, 17 x 16.9 cm, pasted on larger sheet (no signature) with poem: Two apples | drawn | with pen[crossed out] with water | Face | Coated with lipstick | And a very | funny air | taken by my mother | from the closet. Condition: unevenly torn paper on left side, minor creases and soiling.

Zbigniew Kupczynski (born Vilnius 1928) - painter, graduate of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw at the Faculty of Painting under professors E. Geppert and S. Dawski, in 1957 received a ministerial scholarship and went to Paris, where he established cooperation with Galerie Andre Schoeller, also traveled to the USA. In 1962 he initiated the "Free Gallery" by hanging paintings on the walls of Warsaw's Barbican. Since 1971 he has lived permanently in Canada, but often returns to the country(most recently including Artbarbakan 5th edition of the exhibition of independent artists, August 31, 2022). He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including one in Philadelphia in 1963, during which his work hung in the company of works by Picasso, Chagall, Braque, Paul Klee, and Joan Miro.