Wojciech Fangor, WITHOUT TITLE, 1957

20.5 x 15.0 cm - oil, cream paper 20.5 x 15 cm (in light of passe-partout)

signed in pencil on the reverse: Fangor 57

Image exhibited:

- Identity and Transformations, Andzelm Gallery, Lublin, 1 IX - 1X 2006.

Work reproduced in the catalog:

- Fangor. Identity and Transformations. Andzelm Gallery Collection 3, [published by] Apostolicum, Ząbki 2006, p. 16 .

♣ to the auctioned price, in addition to other costs, will be added a fee resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Law of February 4, 1994 - on copyright and related rights (droit de suite).

Wojciech Fangor (Warsaw 1922 - Warsaw 2015) studied painting with Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Szczęsny-Kowarski (1940-44). In 1946 he received his diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1954-62 he was an associate professor at the Graphic Arts Department of the academy. He participated in the official artistic life of the Socialist Realist period as a painter and graphic-poster artist. In painting, he sometimes used exaggerations on the verge of intentional caricature ("Characters," 1950). In film posters, he operated with metaphor and synthetic painterly signs in a way that departed from the doctrine of Socialist Realism ("Stronger Than Night," 1955), becoming a co-founder of the so-called Polish school of posters. He also collaborated with architects, including Stanisław Zamecznik, with whom he created "Study of Space" in 1958, the first Polish environment, which was based on his optical paintings. In 1961, he left Poland, first to Vienna, then to Washington (1962), Paris (1962-1964), West Berlin (1964-1965) and England (1965-1966). In 1966 he settled permanently in the United States, where he taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison (1966-1983) and the Department of Architecture at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachussets (1967-1968). In 1978 he received a Jurzykowski Foundation award. In 1989 he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has lived in Poland since the 1990s.

He died in Warsaw on October 25, 2015.