Elverio Maurizi, Jan Lebenstein (1930-1999)
"Lebenstein et les siens"
La Nuova Foglio S.p.A., Pollenza 1972
Art album with text by Elverio Maurizi dedicated to the work of Jan Lebenstein, illustrated with 8 original lithographs by the artist: Les Siens, Weekend, Double jeu, L'Apogée, Strassbourg-Saint Denis, Longchamps, Image domestique, Le Balcon.
As well as many other full-page graphics.
Format approx. 42 × 31 cm, 48 pages, publisher's hardcover binding.
Piece complete; interior very well preserved,
Jan Lebenstein (1930 Brest-on-the-Bug - 1999 Cracow) - painter and graphic artist, one of the most important figures in post-war Polish art. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (among others with Artur Nacht-Samborski). In 1959 he won the Grand Prix at the Biennale of the Young in Paris, which opened the way to an international career; since the early 1960s he has lived mainly in France.
He is best known for his series of "Axial Figures," as well as his later compositions with a strong symbolic and metaphysical charge - inspired by mythology, the Bible and the experience of the 20th century. He created paintings, drawings, prints and book illustrations (especially for the "Apocalypse" of St. John and the "Book of Job"). His works are in the most important museum collections in Poland and abroad, and the artist is regarded as one of the most outstanding Polish émigré artists.
