Jacek Sempoliński (1927 - 2012), Skull, 1996

oil, canvas, 120 x 89 cm, signed and described on the back: 'Sempoliński|March'96|The Skull'.



During the war, he studied painting in Warsaw at the K. Krzyżanowski underground school. In 1951 he graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, receiving his diploma in 1956. He was a professor at the Warsaw Academy's Industrial Design Department. He was also an essayist, art critic and stage designer. He was co-author of the polychrome paintings on the townhouses of the Old Town Square in Warsaw. He won one of the main prizes during the legendary Arsenal exhibition (1955). In 1977 he received the J. Cybis Award. Works in museum collections, among others: National Museum in Warsaw, Kielce, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The artist's monographic exhibition was presented by Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery in 2002. From the 1960s, he combined motifs drawn from landscape and architectural studies with color and texture solutions close to allusive abstraction (cycles Łysica, Vistas in Mąchocice). In the 1970s he focused his attention on abstracted problems of color, light, painterly space, texture, for which, after all, nature still remains a clear point of departure (cycles Light and darkness, Meadow - sunset, Study of space).