Eugene Markovsky, Drama of the Bull

mixed technique, paper, 54 x 40 cm signed and described at the bottom: E. Markowski/Drama of the Bull

provenance: purchase directly from the artist, private collection, Warsaw

Eugeniusz Markowski (1912 - 2007) Painter, draughtsman, professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He participated in many solo exhibitions and significant group exhibitions at home and abroad, including: 1000 Years Polish Art at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1970; Kunsthalle Mannhaim in 1973; Polish Contemporary Painting at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico in 1975. In 1963 Markowski represented Poland at the São Paulo Biennale.

Art critics point to Soutine, Nolde, Grosz, Dubuffet and Kokoschka as artists close to Markowski, especially his power of expression and way of seeing the world. Bożena Kowalska even believes that with his violent paintings Markowski foreshadowed (almost twenty years in advance) the Neue Wilde movement. As M. Rosiak wrote: "insane and wild, more radical and subversive than the most radical and subversive painting of the young."

Markowski's works are in important museum and private collections around the world, including the Museu de Arte Moderna in São Paulo, the Museum of Art in Lodz, and the National Museums in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan and Wroclaw.