Dimensions: 20.7 x 18.5 cm (clear passe-partout)
Signed and dated in ink at the bottom: 'T. Kantor' and described at the top: 'les origines de "Wielopole"'
dated inside author's stamp: '1979'
on the reverse provenance plate: 'Collezione Stefania Maria Vaselli Piga | Roma 1990'.
Condition
framed
Exhibited
Tadeusz Kantor. Opere dal 1956 al 1990, Spicchi dell'Est, Rome, 11.06-20.07.1990
"Incontri a Sutri. Da Giotto a Pasolini," Museo di Palazzo Doebbing, Sutri, 26.06.2020-5.04.2021
"Tadeusz Kantor Café Europe" (exhibition within the framework of Open Eyes Art Festival), Tadeusz Kantor Gallery-Workshop, Branch of the Cricoteka Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, 13.11.2023-25.02.2024
Literature
Tadeusz Kantor. Opere dal 1956 al 1990, exhibition catalog, Spicchi dell'Est, Rome 1990, nlb. (il.)
Incontri a Sutri. Da Giotto a Pasolini, exhibition catalog, Museo di Palazzo Doebbing, ed. Vittorio Sgarbi, Sara Pallavicini, Laurenzana 2020, nlb. (il.)
Biography
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1939. He was one of the most prominent representatives of the Polish artistic avant-garde of the post-war era, and above all the creator of the Polish avant-garde experimental underground theater, and from 1956 the Cricot 2 theater in Krakow. He was a co-founder and member of the Group of Modern Artists in 1945. In 1955 he traveled to Paris, where he encountered the latest trends in world art. In his work, the main form of artistic expression was abstract painting, especially of the informel type, he was also involved in printmaking; he arranged happenings, was involved in stage design and film. He was active as a teacher: in 1948 and 1968 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and in 1961 at the academy in Hamburg. Among other awards, he won the Goethe Foundation Prize in 1978 in Switzerland.
