Mikołaj Malesza, The Guardian, 2016

Mikolaj Malesza
The Guardian, 2016
Acrylic on canvas, 38x55cm
Signature p.d.: M16
Asking price: PLN 1,200
Estimates: PLN 1,500 - 2,000

Born in 1954 in Krynki. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Interior Design. He received his diploma with honors in 1979. He is involved in painting and theater scenography. He paints landscapes, group portraits, genre scenes, and depicts a world on the borderline of the grotesque, fantasy and reality. He has had more than a dozen solo exhibitions, including in Warsaw, Bialystok, Wroclaw, Amsterdam. He participated in dozens of exhibitions of Polish painting at home and abroad, including: Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Austria, USA, Japan. He has received many awards and prizes, including: second prize at the XXXVIII All-Poland Winter Salon of Fine Arts in Radom (1984) and third prize at the XII All-Poland J. Spychalski Painting Competition in Poznań (1987). He has more than twenty stage designs to his credit.