Jozef Wilkoń, TWO HORSES AND ONE, 2011

35.00 x 35.00 cm - color inks, canvas
Signed p.d.: twenty-one horses and one, next to: Wilkoń

Józef Wilkoń studied art history at the Jagiellonian University from 1950 (graduated 1954) and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of Prof. Adam Marczyński (graduated 1955). Since 1957 he has specialized in illustration and book graphics. He has worked with many publishing houses in the country, including Nasz Księgarnia, Czytelnik, KAW, Interpress, and since 1963 also with foreign publishing houses, such as: Flammarion (Paris), Middelhauve Verlag (Cologne), Loewes Verlag (Bayreuth), Kinderbuchverlag (Berlin), Boehem Press (Zurich), Green Peace Publishers (Tokyo). After the imposition of martial law in Poland, the artist stopped cooperating with domestic publishing houses, henceforth publishing exclusively abroad. He is one of the best known and most awarded Polish illustrators. He has developed his own style based on extraordinary imagination and obedient painting skills. He uses a wide-spread stain contrasted with a graphic line.