Dimensions: 89 x 139 cm
signed and dated p.d.: '59 Jarema'
signed and described on the reverse: 'J. Jarema | ART CLUB [illegible] | 176. 000 L: [illegible] | [strikethrough]'.
Origins
institutional collection, Poland
Biography
He was the older brother of Maria Jarema, painter and graphic artist, co-founder of the first and second Cracow Group. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1918 to 1924. Together with the Capists, he went to Paris in 1924, exhibited with them (Galerie Zak, Paris 1930; Galerie Moos, Geneva 1931) and, like other members of the group, returned to the country in 1931. In Cracow, he began working with the Voice of the Visual Artists. In 1934 he became a co-founder of the experimental theater Cricot, and wrote several dramatic works for it. During World War II, he reached the Polish Army in the West through Romania, with which he walked the combat route to Italy. He remained there after the war ended. In 1945 he was a co-organizer of the international Art Club grouping in Rome. In 1950 he moved to Nice, where he and his wife, painter Maria Sperling, ran a weaving workshop. From then on, in parallel with painting, he created textiles, which he exhibited at exhibitions, including the International Biennale of Textiles in Lausanne.
