Dimensions: 32.5 x 26 cm (in light passe-partout)
Dated p.g.: '.VIII 927.' and a trace of an obliterated signature
Origin
Libra Auction House, March 2018
private collection, Poland
Libra Auction House, March 2021
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Marek Wlodarski / Henryk Streng (1898-1960). Between the center and the periphery, Lviv National Art Gallery, Lviv, 2003.
Marek Wlodarski / Henryk Streng (1898-1960). Between the center and the periphery, exhibition catalog, National Art Gallery in Sopot, Sopot, 2003.
Marek Wlodarski (Henryk Streng) 1903 - 1960, National Museum in Warsaw, December 1981 - January 1982
Literature
Czarownik przy zielonej skale: Marek Włodarski- Henryk Streng, ed. by Józef Chrobak, Justyna Michalik, Marek Wilk, Poznań 2009, il.10.
Marek Włodarski / Henryk Streng (1898-1960). Between the center and the periphery, exhibition catalog, State Art Gallery in Sopot, Sopot, 2003, cat. no. 21, p.149.
Marek Włodarski (Henryk Streng) 1903 - 1960, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, 1981, cat. no. III. 27, s. 73
Biography
Studied at the Lviv Free Academy of Fine Arts and the State Industrial School under Kazimierz Sichulski and at the Paris Académie Moderne under Fernand Léger. He was fascinated by naïve provincial art, fair folk and funfair; he often used the motif of the man-mannequin. In 1930 he joined the ARTES group (members included: Jerzy Janisch, Mieczysław Wysocki, Aleksander Krzywobłocki, Ludwik Lille, Otto Hahn, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Aleksander Riemer). After the war, he taught at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He took part in the work of the Warsaw Club of Young Artists and Scientists, and participated in the Exhibition of Modern Art in Cracow (1948). His post-war work is an interesting counterpart to French and Italian lyrical abstraction.
