Dimensions: 29.5 x 37.5 cm
Signed and dated in pencil underneath: 'W. Strzem | 1939'
described on the reverse: 'author Wladyslaw Strzeminski | title "man and houses" format 31 x 38 | technique pencil drawing | property of Wladyslaw Gorski | zam. Lodz, Piotrkowska 142 | houses and man | Belarus'.
State of preservation
Certificate of authenticity of Zenobia Karnicka attached to the work
Provenance
private collection, Lodz
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Katarzyna Kobro, Władysław Strzemiński, "Zachęta" Central Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Warsaw, January 18 - February 10, 1957
Katarzyna Kobro, Władysław Strzemiński, Art Propaganda Center, Lodz, December 1956
Literature
Władysław Strzemiński 1893-1952. on the centenary of his birth, exhibition catalog, Museum of Art in Lodz, Lodz 1993, cat. no. VI.15. (ill.)
Katarzyna Kobro, Władysław Strzemiński, exhibition catalog, Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions " Zachęta", Warsaw 1955, cat. no. 74.
Biography
He began his artistic education in 1918 with classes from the First State Free Studio in Moscow. At that 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.
