Dimensions: 84.5 x 135 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'S. GIEROWSKI | WARSAW | Ob. CXXXVII 1963'.
on the reverse: installation instructions
described on the painter's loom: '2 SPACES'
on the painting loom stamp: 'Fibak Collection | Monte Carlo'.
Provenance
collection of Wojciech Fibak, Monte Carlo
private collection, Warsaw
Literature
Olga and Wojciech Fibak Collection. New paintings, compiled by. Cezary Ślaziński, Warsaw 2010, p. 85 (il.).
Contemporary art from the collection of Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz,
compiled by. Michał F. Wozniak, Bydgoszcz 2018, p. 110 (il.)
Biography
A representative of the contemporary avant-garde of painting, he 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.
