Dimensions: 32.5 x 52.5 cm
signed on the left: 'gaweł'
Biography
Katarzyna Gawłowa was born in 1896 and died in 1982 in Zielonki, near Krakow. She came from a large, poor peasant family. She spent most of her life working on the farm and raising her children. However, she constantly showed artistic inclinations, which manifested themselves by decorating her own cottage with multicolored motifs - she painted on the walls, ceiling, stove surface or door. Her work was discovered very late, as it was only in the early 1970s when the artist herself was already seventy-seven years old. Her later patron Jacek Lodzinski led to the dissemination of knowledge about Gavlova's work, who then began creating numerous compositions of religious and folk themes on paper and cardboard. Lodzinski also led to the organization of the painter's only exhibition, which took place at the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow in 1977.
