Dimensions: 66.5 x 55.5 cm (inside the mat)
signed and inscribed in pencil at the bottom: 60/175 Stańczak'
Condition
Work framed
Biography
A Polish painter residing permanently in the United States, one of the pioneers of Op Art. In 1940, he and his entire family were arrested by the Soviets and deported to Siberia. As a result of hard labor and illness, he lost the use of his right hand. He fled with his family from the Soviet Union to Africa, where he settled in a camp for Polish refugees. He spent his youth in Uganda, where he took his first drawing lessons using his left hand. He held his first exhibition of his work in Nairobi (Kenya). In 1949, he emigrated with his family to the United Kingdom, where he began his studies at the London Polytechnic, and in 1950 he moved to the United States. There, he began his studies at the Cleveland Art Institute, from which he graduated in 1954. He then studied at Yale, where he earned a Master of Arts in the Sciences. In 1964, he became a professor of painting at the Cleveland Art Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.
