Halina Dabrowska (1925-1996), Courtyard on Dajwór Street, 1973

Oil, cardboard; dimensions: 38 x 32 cm; dated and signed p. d.: 11 IX 1973. H.DĄBROWSKA; on the back a sticker with a typed description of the work.

Halina Dąbrowska (1925-1996) Painter and sculptor. Trained as a psychiatrist. In 1976 she was admitted to the Association of Polish Artists. She was friends with the illustrator Adam Hoffmann. She painted mostly Krakow - most preferably dilapidated tenements, falling off plaster. Especially close to her was the Kazimierz district. She often wove a lonely human figure into the landscape.