Dimensions: 100 x 70 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Michałowska 1983'.
Signed and dated in typescript l.d.: 'Prayer Drawing 1983'.
Literature
Maria Michalowska, compiled by. Elżbieta Kościelak, Wrocław 2014, item 132, p. 71 (il.)
Biography
The artist studied at the Faculty of Humanities at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (1945-47) and the Faculty of Painting at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (1951-57). Later she worked as a lecturer at the Wrocław University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture in the Department of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (1959-1995). Since 1991 she has been working as a professor. Michalowska is counted among the first representatives of conceptual art in Poland, and in her works she explores the phenomenon of time and space. She works in painting, drawing and photography. Her works are in the collections of the National Museums in Wroclaw, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lodz and the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, among others.
