Dimensions: height: 96 cm
Signed and dated: 'M. ABAKANOWICZ 91 [artist's monogram] MA'
unique
Origin:
private collection, Poland (gift from the artist)
Literature
cf. with the series "Anonymous Portraits":
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Műcsarnok, Budapest 1988, pp. 174-177 (ill.).
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Season Museum of Art, Tokyo, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Art Tower, Mito, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima 1991, pp. 126-127 (ill.).
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museum of Art in Lodz, 1991, nlb.
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marlborough Gallery, Inc., Tokyo 1991, nlb (il.).
Magdalena Abakanowicz. Works from the collection of the National Museum in Wroclaw and the artist's own collection, BWA in Krakow, 1993, pp. 6-7, 23 (il.).
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 1995, pp. 120-121, 213 (ill.).
Mariusz Hermansdorfer, Magdalena Abakanowicz, National Museum in Wroclaw, 2005, pp. 32-35, 72-73 (ill.).
"Contexts", no. 3-4, 2006, pp. 128, 226-227 (ill.).
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe 2009, p. 18 (il.)
Mariusz Hermansdorfer, Magdalena Abakanowicz, National Museum in Wroclaw, 2011, pp. 44-47, 71 (il.).
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Center for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, 2013, pp. 48-49, 95, 107 (ill.).
Magdalena Abakanowicz, BWA Gallery of Art in Olsztyn, 2017, pp. 2, 28-29, 50, 63 (ill.)
In the space of Magdalena Abakanowicz. Fabric and Sculpture, Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Riga 2019, pp. 130-131 (il.).
Our Time. Magdalena Abakanowicz, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, National Museum in Wroclaw, 2020, pp. 38-39 (il.).
Magdalena Abakanowicz. Totally, National Museum in Wroclaw, 2022, pp. 116-117, 228-237, 298-299 (il.).
Pawel Kowal, Abakanowicz. Trauma and Fame, Agora Publishers, Warsaw 2023, pp. 292 (il.)
Biography
Magdalena Abakanowicz studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1950-54. She practiced sculpture. The first works that brought her international fame were the monumental, spatial tapestries with relief texture Abakanas. Her sculptures are made in a variety of techniques and materials: ceramics, wood, bronze, plastic - both figurative and non-figurative. She has made and completed many projects for public places and museums. In 1965-90 she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. She is the author of erudite essays on art, mythology, religion. In 1965 she was awarded the Grand Prix at the Sao Paulo Biennale. By world critics she is counted among the top artists of the 20th century.