Dimensions: 129 x 80 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Kierzkowski | 1961'
Signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'BRONISŁAW | KIERZKOWSKI | WARSZAWA | 1961' and on the stretcher: '"COMPOSITION 316"'
Provenance
collection of William Lincer, New York (gift of the artist)
private collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 2021
institutional collection, Poland
Biography
Studied from 1946 to 47 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz under the direction of Władysław Strzemiński. He continued his studies in Gdansk and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Eugeniusz Eibisch (1951 - 55). He received his diploma in 1956. He taught there from 1962 - 63, and then at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (1963 - 78). Since 1978, again at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1987, he received the title of professor. After a period of informel and experiments with matter painting, from around 1957 he created plaster reliefs, the most characteristic for him. The artist's works can be found in state and private, Polish and international collections.
