Dimensions: 81 x 64 cm
Signed on the reverse: 'M. T. Janikowski'
on the reverse two stickers from the artist's family inventory with number 34, an exhibition sticker from the National Museum in Warsaw and a transport sticker
Origin
collection of the artist's family, Paris (?)
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Mieczyslaw Tadeusz Janikowski. 1912-1968. monographic exhibition, TPSP Kraków, 1986; BWA Bydgoszcz, 1987; BWA Poznań, 1987; CBWA Warsaw, 1987.
"Mieczyslaw T. Janikowski: toward abstraction," National Museum in Warsaw, October-November 2004.
"Mieczyslaw T. Janikowski. Euclidean Meditations", Piekary Gallery, Poznań, 21.05-30.07.2021
Literature
Mieczyslaw Tadeusz Janikowski. Monographic exhibition, exhibition catalog, CBWA Warsaw, TPSP Krakow, Krakow 1987, cat. no. 261, p. 43.
Mieczyslaw T. Janikowski. Euclidean Meditations, Poznań 2021, p. 174 (ill.).
Biography
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Prof. W. Jarocki, K. Sichulski and S. Filipkiewicz. During World War II, soldier of General Maczek's 1st Armored Division. After the war, he studied at the College of Art in Edinburgh. He settled in Paris. Starting in the 1940s, he created geometric abstractions, which became increasingly simplified over time. He lived for art and was totally devoted to it. His work was recalled with a monographic exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw in 2004. He practiced figurative painting at the same time, creating landscapes, especially Provençal landscapes, and informel type works. The artist's works can be found in the collections of the National Museum in Cracow, Warsaw, Gdansk and Poznan, the Art Museum in Lodz, among others.
