Dimensions: 130 x 120 x 3 cm
stamped p.d.
signed and dated on the reverse: 'T. Kantor | 1974'
on the reverse a Galerie de France sticker and transport stickers
Origin
Galerie de France, Paris
collection of Grazyna Kulczyk, Poland
Exhibited
"Tadeusz Kantor - Impossible," Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, 6-7.2000; Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 7.04-20.05.2001; Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, 19.10-2.12.2001
"Tadeusz Kantor/Piotr Uklański, The year we made contact", Art Stations, Poznań, 4.11.2010-21.01.2011
Literature
Tadeusz Kantor/Piotr Uklański, The Year We Made Contact, exhibition catalog, Art Stations, Poznań 2011, p. 42 (il.).
Cf:
Tadeusz Kantor. Everything Hangs by a Thread, exhibition catalog, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw 1973, cat. no. 8, nlb
Le opere di Tadeusz Kantor. I pittori di Cricot 2. Il teatro Cricot 2, exhibition catalog, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome 1979, cat. item 8 (Dal ciclo: E' tutto appeso ad un filo: "La tela e la colomba'), p. 94
Métamorphoses, exhibition catalog, Galerie de France, Paris 1982
Ma création, mon voyage. Commentaires intimes, Éditions Plume, Paris 1991, no. 124, p. 110 (il.).
In the Shadow of a Chair. Tadeusz Kantor's painting and object art, [ed.] T. Gryglewicz, Universitas, Krakow 1997, pp. 70-71 (ill.).
Biography
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1939. He was one of the most prominent representatives of the Polish artistic avant-garde of the post-war era, and above all the creator of the Polish avant-garde experimental underground theater, and from 1956 the Cricot 2 theater in Cracow. He was a co-founder and member of the Group of Modern Artists in 1945. In 1955 he traveled to Paris, where he encountered the latest trends in world art. In his work, the main form of artistic expression was abstract painting, especially of the informel type, he was also involved in printmaking; he arranged happenings, was involved in stage design and film. He was active as a teacher: in 1948 and 1968 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and in 1961 at the academy in Hamburg. Among other awards, he won the Goethe Foundation Prize in 1978 in Switzerland.
