Dimensions: 100 x 79 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'KANTOR | 1950 KRAKOW | TITLE: 'MODEL' | LE TITRE: "LE MODELE"'
on the reverse an abstract composition
Origins
collection of Ulla and Theodor Ahrenberg, Switzerland
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Tadeusz Kantor (exhibition as part of the "Days of Cracow" art festival), Krzysztofory Gallery, Cracow, June-July 1957
"Tadeusz Kantor. Interior Imaginations", Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 15.04-12.06.2005
"Hommage à Józef Chrobak - around the memory of the Cracow Group", Piekary Gallery, Poznań, 20.11-23.12.2020
Literature
Tadeusz Kantor, exhibition catalog, Krzysztofory Gallery, Cracow 1957, cat. no. 8, nlb.
Tadeusz Kantor. Wandering, ed. by Józef Chrobak and others, Cricoteka, Kraków 2000, p. 65 (ill. no. 67)
Tadeusz Kantor. Interior of Imagination, exhibition catalog, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, ed. Jarosław Suchan, Marek Świca, Warsaw 2005, p. 27 (ill.)
Hommage à Józef Chrobak - around the memory of the Cracow Group, exhibition catalog, Piekary Gallery, ed. Magdalena Piłakowska, Poznań 2020, cat. no. 11, p. 141 (ill. no. 32), 88, 94 (photos from the exhibition), 148-149 (index)
Biography
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1939. He was one of the most outstanding representatives of the Polish artistic avant-garde of the post-war era, and above all the creator of the Polish avant-garde experimental underground theater, and from 1956 of the Cricot 2 theater in Cracow. He was a co-founder and member of the Group of Modern Artists in 1945. In 1955 he traveled to Paris, where he encountered the latest trends in world art. In his work, the main form of artistic expression was abstract painting, especially of the informel type, he was also involved in printmaking; he arranged happenings, was involved in stage design and film. He was active as a teacher: in 1948 and 1968 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and in 1961 at the academy in Hamburg. Among other awards, he won the Goethe Foundation Prize in 1978 in Switzerland.
