Alfred LENICA

LANDSCAPE WITH TOPOLS, ca. 1960 Watercolor, pencil, paper; 21 x 31 cm

Alfred LENICA

1899 Pabianice - 1977 Warsaw

Studied drawing and painting privately in the studios of Artur Hannytkiewicz and Piotr Kubowicz in Poznań (1925-1928). In the 1930s he painted figurative paintings, referring in style to cubism. A little later he succumbed to the influence of Surrealism, which, leaving aside the years of Socialist Realism, would become his most serious area of painterly exploration. After moving to Poznan, he became a co-founder of the avant-garde group "4F R" in 1947. He is the author of the first Polish Tasist painting (Paints in Motion, 1949, tempera). In the late 1950s, he moved to Warsaw. In the second half of the 1950s he again practiced informel, painting eagerly using the dripping technique. Around 1958, he developed an individual, distinctive style of swirling, colorful, sometimes calligraphic forms that dynamically filled the fields of paintings. In his paintings he did not shy away from shapes that referred to natural forms, and in the 1970s he sometimes incorporated figural motifs into his compositions.

Asking price 2000

Estimate 3000 - 3500