Dimensions: 46 x 61 cm
Signed and dated inside the composition: 'Włodzimierz Jan Zakrzewski 27.07.| 1979'.
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'WLODZIMIERZ JAN ZAKRZEWSKI | PAINTING DATED 27.07.1979 | 46 X 61 CM OIL, CANVAS'.
Biography
Studied at the Faculty of Painting and Graphics at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1964-70, graduating in the studio of Prof. Krystyna Łada-Studnicka. The artist left Poland in 1981 and settled in the USA in the state of New York. Since 1990, he divided his time between New York and Warsaw. Since 2001 he has been living and working in Warsaw. He comes from an artistic family: his father, Włodzimierz Zakrzewski, was a well-known painter and poster designer, and his mother, Elżbieta Owsepian-Zakrzewska, was a painter. His works are in the collections of, among others: National Museum in Warsaw, Museum of Art in Lodz, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum Bochum in Bochum, Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Center for Contemporary Art "Znaki Czasu" in Torun, Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, National Museum in Poznan, Brooklyn Museum in New York, Haags Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, De Pont Foundation in Tilburg, Netherlands.
