oil/canvas, 140 x 100 cm
signed and inscribed on back: s. gierowski / Ob. DCCLXXXVII
on the reverse, on the stretcher bar, ownership stamp: Fibak Collection / Monte Carlo
PROVENANCE:
- private collection
"Luminosity can be treated as a simple chart of the color scale, but the charm of combining transformations with the emotions of imagination persuades one to look for a special value in the luminosity of color. I think that it is in this luminosity of color and its saturation, down to the dense matter of pigment, that one of the secrets of the painterly distinctiveness of the great masters and their recognizable uniqueness lies."
Stefan Gierowski
(Stefan Gierowski, Boring remarks and complaints, [in:] Stefan Gierowski. Quality - Brightness - Saturation, aTak Gallery 2010 [exhibition cat.], Warsaw 2010, p. 30)
