Zenon Kononowicz (1903-1971), Work corner
Ink on wrapping paper, 83.5 x 64 cm (frame) / 62 x 44.5 cm (under passe partout).
Signature (Konon), title (Workers' Corner) on the reverse.
Work purchased at a charity auction from the artist's atelier, held after his death.
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Zenon Kononovich - painter, printmaker, educator. He was born on May 15, 1903 in the village of Ustroń in the Vilnius region. He studied art in Ryazan (1918-1923), then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (1923-1929), in the studios of Felicjan Kowarski and Jozef Pankiewicz, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1929-1933), where he received his diploma in 1933.
He worked at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he was an assistant to Felicjan Kowarski, and also taught at the School of Drawing and Painting in Lublin and the High School of Fine Arts in Nałęczów. In 1953 he settled in Kazimierz Dolny, with which he remained associated until the end of his life. In 1970 he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland. She died in Kazimierz Dolny, November 27, 1971.
