Wojciech Fangor (1922 Warsaw - 2015 ibid.) (F), Circle'

pastel on paper, 65 cm x 50 cm sheet dimension, signed, dated 75, partially slighty creased, mounted, slightly stained verso, Provenance: Galerie Chalette, New York (gallery label verso)

The Warsaw-born artist Wojciech Fangor worked with colour. This is the main element of his art. Certainly, the artist also grew up in politically difficult situations, such as the Second World War. His art lessons, which he received from the portrait painter Tadeusz Pruszkowski and the painter and sculptor Felicjan Szczesny Kowarski, allowed him access to another world. Over the years, the artist turned to different styles of art and developed a taste for socialist realism himself. Optical art, however, detached him from all motivic events and proved itself in several successful exhibitions. His 'Positive Illusory Space' included bright colours and barely discernible contours. The artist worked on this 'Space' since the 1950s and stuck to it. Likewise, the present pastel drawing also belongs to this repertoire of the artist and shows in its own simplicity the beauty and elegance of coordinated coloured lines.