Krystyna WRÓBLEWSKA, In the struggle for health, Five woodcuts

Woodcut, paper, 35.3 x 25.7 cm (folder), 23 x 17.5 cm, stamped on back of each: KRYSTYNA WRÓBLEWSKA - [title]. Bacteriologist / In the infirmary / Surgeon / In the factory nursery / Sanatorium. Pressed from pear blocks in a hand press of 30 copies in Cracow 1952. N 20.

Painter, graphic artist. Studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Stefan Batory University in Vilnius (under Ludomir Sledziński), then at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris (1938). Co-founder of the Vilnius Group. In Poland, in Cracow together with her son Andrzej since 1945. Co-founder of the Group of Nine Graphic Artists. She exhibited with this Group in 1947-1960, and continued the traditions of Warsaw and Vilnius woodcuts from before the war. Known for her fantastic exlibrises around the world.