Dimensions: 45.7 x 35.5 cm
Signed p.d: 'GOTLIB'
on the reverse a stamp of the storehouse of painting utensils, on the frame a sticker from an exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw in 1980 and a sticker with the inscription - Nude/1964/catalogue No 7 - the number refers to a manuscript catalog compiled by the artist's wife Janet Gotlib
Origin
legacy of the artist
Collection of the artist's wife Janet Gotlib, England
Agra-Art, October 1998
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Henryk Gotlib 1890-1966, National Museum in Warsaw, January-February 1980
Literature
Henryk Gotlib 1890-1966. catalog of an exhibition of paintings and drawings, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 1980, p. 74, cat. no. 70, fig. 24
Biography
Painter, graphic artist, publicist and art critic, author of the book 'Wanderings of a Painter'. He belonged to art groups - Formists, Zwornik, Cercle des Artistes Polonais and London Group. In 1908-10 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of W. Weiss. He continued his studies in Munich. He later stayed in Paris, where he participated in the salons there. After World War I, which he survived in the country, he joined the Formists, with whom he exhibited in 1920-22. In 1922 he left the country again, going to Italy and England. In 1939 he settled permanently in England. In the early days of his work, he experimented, looking for new solutions; over time, color became for him the main building block of a painting, which he considered to be properly constructed when colors were combined and contrasted in such a way as to produce an effect closest to the artist's original feeling towards nature. He painted still lifes, landscapes, nudes and portraits.
