76.4 x 67.7cm - watercolor, gouache, pastel, cardboard signed l.d.: KMackiewicz
On the reverse p.d. sticker (in pen): Private property | Maria [...].
♣ to the price auctioned, in addition to other costs, will be added a fee arising from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite).
Konstanty Mackiewicz (Maloryta near Brest-on-the-Bug 1894 - in Lodz 1985) - painter and theater stage designer; began his artistic studies in Odessa (1913/14), then studied in Penza (1914-1919), and later in the studio of Wassil Kandinsky at the Moscow Higher School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. From 1922 he lived in Lviv, where he worked as a theater stage designer. In 1926 he moved permanently to Lodz and worked at the City Theater. He was a member of the "Rhythm" and "Start" art groups, and exhibited extensively, including at Zachęta and the IPS Salons in Warsaw, as well as abroad, including Brussels (1933), Paris (1937; two gold medals) and New York (1939). After World War II, he continued to live in Lodz, taking part in numerous exhibitions. In his rich and highly varied oeuvre, he referred to the tenets of Cubism, Futurism and Colorism. He painted both abstract compositions and realistic landscapes or still lifes. After the war, he created series of paintings Here Were People, Cathedrals, City, among others.
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