Tadeusz Koper, WITHOUT TITLE, 1980

47.0 x 45.0 cm - marble marble, height (with base) 47 cm, width 45 cm

Signed on the back d.: T. KOPER 80

♣ a fee will be added to the auctioned price in addition to other costs, resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite).

Tadeusz Koper (Lviv 1910 - Italy [?] 1995, appearing in university documents as Kopera) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1932 to 1936 in the painting studios of Władysław Jarocki, Józef Mehoffer and from 1936 to 1938 in the sculpture studio of Xawery Dunikowski. Despite graduating in 1938, he spent another academic year there in 1938/39, probably as an assistant professor. In 1940, he made his way to London via France. He entered the circle of Polish immigrant artists and became a member of the Association of Polish Artists in Britain. In 1965 he had a solo exhibition at the Brook Street Gallery in London, and also exhibited at the Grabowski Gallery. A particular fondness for marble sculpture took him to Carrara, Italy. This stage of the artist's life is documented in the biographical film "Tadeusz Koper - Back to the Origins" made by Stanislaw Pater. His works have entered the collection of the sculpture museum in Carrara. In Poland, Koper's work is represented in the National Museum in Kielce and the University Museum in Torun (which specializes in the work of Polish artists abroad), among others.