Dimensions: 69.5 x 61.5 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'FANGOR 1961 | BLUE 4'
Origin
Gres Gallery, Washington, c. 1961-1962
Edward J. Gesick Collection, Atlanta, 1962
Sotheby's, New York, 2009
private collection, Warsaw, 2009
Polswiss Art, 2021
Exhibited
Wojciech Fangor. Paintings and Designs, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Washington, DC, USA, 18-30.04.1962
Literature
Wojciech Fangor: Paintings and Designs, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Washington 1962 (invitation to the exhibition).
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Biography
During the occupation, he studied privately with Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski. He received his diploma at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1946. For the Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw, he and Henryk Tomaszewski designed the spatial decoration in the open air. From then on, the painting works were realized in relation to the space outside the painting - as in the famous "Study of Space" from 1958, preceding the worldwide realization of environments. The painting installations of the 1950s and 1960s, composed of colorful contrasting circles and waves, touched on optical problems and were close to op-art. The culmination of this period was a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1970). He taught at universities in England and the US. His works are in major collections around the world.
