Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm
Signed and dated on the reverse: '[mounting pointer | S. Gierowski | 1962 (corrected to 1963)'.
author's dedication on the underside: 'To Siemion - Gierowski | 15 II 1968'.
Provenance
gift directly from the artist
collection of Wojciech Siemion
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
"Gierowski. Painting Exhibition," BWA in Olsztyn, 1967
Literature
"Contemporaneity. Literary biweekly", no. 22, 1963, p. 5 (il.).
Gierowski. Painting Exhibition, cat. exhib., ZPAP, BWA in Olsztyn, 1967, nlb (il.)
Biography
A representative of the contemporary avant-garde of painting, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studios of Zbigniew Pronaszko and Karol Frycz. At the same time he studied art history at the Jagiellonian University under Wojslaw Mole. In 1949, he settled in Warsaw. In 1956-61 he cooperated with the Krzywe Koło Gallery run by Marian Bogusz. From 1962 to 1996 he taught at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he served as dean of the Faculty of Painting from 1975-81, and was elected rector-elect in 1983. The martial law authorities firmly rejected this candidacy. In the 1980s he was associated with the "independent culture" circle. In 1980 he received the Jan Cybis Award.