Dimensions: 65 x 96 cm (entire)
Signed and dated p.g.: 'W. Taranczewski | 1932'
Provenance
Desa Unicum, December 2011
private collection, Warsaw
Biography
Studied at the School of Decorative Arts in Poznań and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the studios of F. Pautsch and F. S. Kowarski. At the end of the 1920s he moved to Warsaw. Here he debuted in 1932 at the Second Salon of the IPS. He was a member of the Pryzmat group. After the war, he stayed in Poznan and Krakow, with which he became permanently associated. From his youth he was interested in abstraction; during his studies in Krakow he had contacts with the Futurists. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and was also the author of polychrome paintings (including in the churches of St. Mary and St. Martin in Poznan). In Paris he entered the circle of colorism, whose color palette he maintained in the following years of his work, although with a strong limitation of the colors used. The artist's compositions were characterized by the reduction of figures or objects to a synthetic sign, preserving the decorative function of the painting.
