Dimensions: 53 x 42.5 cm
Signed and dated in pencil underneath: 'B. Wahl 1975'
signed, dated and described in pencil on the reverse: 'Bożena Wahl | "Sex" 1975 | ink pencil technique | 55 x 60 | "Sex"'.
Exhibited
Alicja and Bożena Wahl, "Sisters", lokal_30, Warsaw, 26.11.2021-3.02.2022
Biography
Twin sisters Bożena and Alicja Wahl were born in Warsaw and both graduated from the Painting Department of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Eugeniusz Eibisch's studio in 1957. Since 1961, the artists have exhibited together. At their first exhibition at the Krzywe Koło Gallery, they presented ceramics, and at subsequent exhibitions, drawing and painting. They showed their works many times, also outside Poland - in France, Germany, Sweden and the United States. In 1979, they established a gallery in their home in Warsaw's Żoliborz district. The A.B. Wahl Gallery specialized mainly in art derived from the tradition of Surrealism, which was also familiar to the sisters themselves. In addition to, drawing, painting, graphics and ceramics, Bozena Wahl, together with her sister, created set designs for Kabaret Starszych Panów and TV Theater performances. They collaborated with the weekly magazine "Kultura", magazines "Ty i ja", "Szpilki" and with publishing houses as cartoonists and illustrators. Until the late 1960s, their work was very difficult to distinguish. Only in the early 1970s did it become more distinct, gaining individual characteristics. Bozena's palette became darker and darker, and her subject matter became more dramatic, focusing on sadness and suffering.
