Dimensions: 90 x 100 cm
Signed with a circular stamp p.d.: 'T. Kantor' and handwritten 'T. Kantor'
signed, dated and described on the stretcher on the reverse: 'Kantor 1970 Execution' and signed: 'T. KANTOR'
on the reverse an exhibition sticker Whitechapel Gallery in London
Origin
Museum of Art in Lodz, Lodz (artist's deposit)
Galerie de France, Paris (purchase directly from the artist)
private collection, Germany (since 2001)
private collection, Poland (since 2006)
Desa Unicum, 2020
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
"La Chaise. Stolen.Tadeusz Kantor", Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, 1971
"Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages 1960-76", Whitechapel Gallery, London, 22.09-31.10.1976
"Tadeusz Kantor. Emballage", Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 31.10.1975-6.01.1976
"Kantor, peintures, dessins", Centre d'Arts Contemporains, Grande Galerie, Petite Galerie, Orleans 1990
"Tadeusz Kantor 1915-1990: Leben im Werk," Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, 19.09-1.12.1996
"Tadeusz Kantor: L'escena de la memoria," Fundacio Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona, 14.03-18.05.1997
"Kantor. Spanish motifs in the work of Tadeusz Kantor", National Museum in Cracow, Cracow, 1999
"Tadeusz Kantor et après...", Ville d'Orleans, 23.09-28.10.2000
"Impossible Theater. Performativity in the Art of Paweł Althamer, Tadeusz Kantor, Katarzyna Kozyra, Robert Kuśmirowski
and Artur Zmijewski," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 8.07-3.10.2005
Barbican Centre, London, 3.02-17.04.2006
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 9.05-2.07.2006
Literature
Tadeusz Kantor. Emballages 1960-76, exhibition catalog, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1974, p. nlb.
cf. Borowski Wieslaw, Tadeusz Kantor, Warsaw 1982, p. 73.
Tadeusz Kantor. Ma création, mon voyage, exhibition catalog, Galerie de France, introduction by Guy Scarpetta, Paris 1991, p. 134,
cat. p. 154 (ill.)
Denis Bablet, Tadeusz Kantor, [in:] Les voies de la création théâtrale, Paris 1993, p. 33, cat. item 15 (ill.)
compare: Tadeusz Kantor, My creation, my journey, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Oka Shigemi, Suzuki Takashi, Tokyo, 1994 p. 211,
cat. no. 159
Tadeusz Kantor, exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg 1996, cat. no. 38 (ill.).
Tadeusz Kantor, la escena de la memoria, Madrid 1997, p. 99, cat. item 21 (il.)
Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz, Kantor. And this is Poland, Wrocław 1997, p. 184 (ill.)
Kantor. Spanish motifs in the work of Tadeusz Kantor [ed.] Zofia Golubiew, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Cracow, Cracow 1999, p. 21,
pos. cat. 10 (ill.)
Jolanta Antecka, Spain by Tadeusz Kantor, [in:] "Dziennik Polski", no. 141, 19.06.1999, p. 43 (ill.).
Tadeusz Kantor. Fini comme la mort, [in:] "Pleine Marge," vol. 33, Paris 2001, p. 21 (ill.).
compare: Tadeusz Kantor. Interior of Imagination, exhibition catalog, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Cracow 2005, p. 165.
compare: Lech Stangret, Tadeusz Kantor. Painterly Emballage of a Total Work, Cracow 2006, p. 110.
The impossible theater. Performativity in the art of Paweł Althamer, Tadeusz Kantor, Katarzyna Kozyra, Robert Kuśmirowski and Artur Żmijewski,
exhibition catalog, Warsaw 2006, p. 105 (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 of 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.
