Stanislaw Fijalkowski, 2 XI 66, 1966

pencil, paper, 75.5 x 50 cm signed, dated and inscribed at bottom: 2 XI 66 S Fijałkowski 13c/66; top: If you just wanted to remember how you lived/ when you were three years old. I remember from that period some tastes of inedible things/or smells of furniture, people and metals; bottom: Modern methods of spraying trees are very effective in destroying/the caterpillars that nightingales feed on

provenance: purchased directly from the artist; private collection, Warsaw
exhibited: Stanisław Fijałkowski. Paris Notebook 1965, Piękna Gallery, Warsaw, 2022
reproduced: Stanisław Fijałkowski. Paris Notebook 1965, Piękna Gallery, Warsaw, 2022, p. 175.

Stanisław Fijałkowski (November 4, 1922, Zdołbunów - November 4, 2020, Łódź) Studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź in the studios of Władysław Strzemiński and Stefan Wegner from 1946 to 1951. From 1947 he was a lecturer and then a professor at his alma mater. He was a member of the Warsaw Club of Young Artists and Scientists. He represented Poland at the São Paulo Biennale in 1969 and the Venice Biennale in 1972. Stanislaw Fijalkowski's works were presented at more than 500 exhibitions at home and abroad. They can be found in numerous private and public collections in Poland and abroad, including: Museum of Modern Art in New York, Albertina in Vienna, Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Pushkin Museum in Moscow, McGrew-Hill Collection in New York, Tate Gallery in London or Kunstmuseum in Bochum.