Dimensions: 69 x 35 cm
Inscribed on the reverse: 'Wladyslaw Strzeminski | 1950 (?) | 49'.
Origins
collection of Nora and Jan Szczepański, Warsaw
DESA Unicum, 1996
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Katarzyna Kobro. Władysław Strzemiński, CBWA ZPAP Warsaw; Art Propaganda Center Lodz, December 1956 - January 1957.
Władysław Strzemiński - paintings, drawings, documents, personal photographs. Creativity 1922-1950, W. Strzeminski PWSSP, Lodz 23-29.04.1988
Literature
Katarzyna Kobro. Władysław Strzemiński, exhibition catalog at the CBWA ZPAP and the Art Propaganda Center, Lodz 1957, cat. no. 154, p. 47 (as "Sketch for a Harvester").
Wladyslaw Strzeminski. 1893-1952. on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth, exhibition catalog, [edited by] Jadwiga Janik, Zenobia Karnicka, Janina Ładnowska, Lodz 1993, cat. no. II.160, p. 204 (ill.)
Biography
He began his artistic education in 1918 with classes from the First State Free Studio in Moscow. During this time he established artistic contacts with Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin. In 1921 he moved to Vilna, where he co-organized the New Art Exhibition (1923) and the Block Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist groups. He was a member of the international group Abstraction-Creation. Since 1931 he has been in Lodz, where he co-founded the International Collection of Modern Art. After 1945, he is engaged in teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. He contributed much to the world avant-garde with his work. World critics rank Strzeminski among the top artists of the 20th century.
