Franciszek Starowieyski, WHICH LAWS OF NATURE DO NOT APPLY, 1996

118.5 x 85.0 cm - gouache, paper 118.5 x 85 - dimensions in light of frame

signed l.g.: 16 FS 96 [date with tied monogram] | R [in circle] | WHICH RIGHTS | NATURE DOES NOT APPLY

on the reverse p.g. a sticker from the exhibition Summer Salon '99 in Kazimierz Dolny with the data of the work written by hand (incorrect specification of the technique).



Image exhibited, reproduced and described:

- Kiejstut Bereźnicki, Jerzy Duda-Gracz, Antoni Fałat, Zbysław M. Maciejewski, Franciszek Starowieyski (exhibition catalog), Górków Palace Poznań, IV - V 1999, p. 27, color ill;

- Painters of Kazimierz, Summer Salon '99, Nadwiślańskie Museum in Kazimierz Dolny, August 15 - September 26, 1999.



♣ to the price auctioned, in addition to other costs, a fee will be added, resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)

Franciszek Starowieyski (Bratkówka near Krosno 8 July 1930 - Warsaw 23 II 2009), using the pseudonym Jan Byk, studied from 1949 to 1952 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Prof. Wojciech Weiss , after which he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, receiving his diploma in the studio of Prof. Michał Bylina in 1955. In the 1960s and 1970s, he gained the greatest recognition as a poster designer, in which he quickly rivaled the coryphaeuses of this art in Poland. He cultivated a poster of the author's type, with a recognizable style based on sweeping and at the same time calligraphic drawing, and above all surprising, surreal associations. From 1964 he was the art director of the fashionable monthly magazine "You and Me." With time, the predominance in his achievements gained "pure" drawing, since 1980 often presented in the form of dynamic sessions of the so-called "Theater of Drawing", with the participation of models, audience and the artist himself, fulfilling in it the role of demiurge. He created many painting and drawing compositions emanating a surreal atmosphere of life on the verge of physical decay, being a contemporary version of the vanitas theme. Fascinated by Baroque culture, the artist has been anti-dating all his works by 300 years since 1970. The artist was the recipient of numerous awards, which he won at such exhibitions as the Sao Paulo Art Biennale 1973, the International Film Poster Exhibition, Cannes 1974, the "Annual Key Award", Los Angeles 1978, among others. He was in New York on several occasions at the invitation of the Kosciuszko Foundation. In 1980 he was a professor at the Berliner Hochschule der Künste, in the 1990s he taught at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw.