Andrzej Cisowski (1962 Bialystok, Poland - 2020 Targowo, Poland), Naives Bild'

mixed media with oil and collage on canvas, 140 cm x 110 cm, titled, signed on verso, monogrammed, numbered and dated 35/89, partly slightly craquelured, Provenance: art collector from NRW, Information: For this object the VAT of 19 % will be charged on the hammer price + buyer's premium (regular taxation).

Andrzej Cisowski was a Polish painter, graphic artist and multimedia artist of contemporary art. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, he continued his education at the Academy of Art in the late 1980s and became a master student of A.R. Penck, with whom he also worked together. He was able to complete this course of study with the help of scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and concentrate on beginning his artistic work. Immediately afterwards, he spent time in New York, which opened Cisowski up to the American art scene. His individual style developed on the border of figurative painting and new expression, with epigrams full of grotesque humour. Comic characters, media heroes from famous cartoons and advertisements, appear in an environment of objects and cues from urban culture. It is precisely the intermediate step between completed studies and the big wide world to enter as an artist that makes up our offered work. The ''Naive Picture'' is dated 1989 and is characterised by an urban scene: a gentleman who takes on almost harlequin-like features and a dog that appears as a hybrid of a tiger, a leopard and a crocodile. Walls of houses with torn up masonry, grid-like lines form the background and merge into the street. In addition, there are some advertising spaces and the crescent moon, which shines above everything as the only natural element.