Dimensions: 200 x 70 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'S Gierowski | Painting CCCVI | Warsaw | 1973'.
on the reverse an export sticker with the description of the work
on the stretcher stamps Collection Fibak Monte Carlo
Origin
collection of Wojciech Fibak
Polswiss Art, 2013
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Simone van Dormael Gallery, Brussels, 1980
Literature
New Paintings. Collection of Olga and Wojciech Fibak, edited by Cezary Slazinski, Fibak Gallery, Warsaw 2010, p. 87 (ill.)
Biography
Representative of the contemporary avant-garde of painting, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studios of Zbigniew Pronaszko and Karol Frycz. At the same time he studied art history at the Jagiellonian University under Wojslaw Mole. In 1949, he settled in Warsaw. In 1956-61 he cooperated with the Krzywe Koło Gallery run by Marian Bogusz. From 1962 to 1996 he taught at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, where he served as dean of the Faculty of Painting from 1975-81, and was elected rector-elect in 1983. The martial law authorities firmly rejected this candidacy. In the 1980s he was associated with the "independent culture" circle. In 1980 he received the Jan Cybis Award.
