Description
Gouache, paper on fiberboard; 64 x 77 cm
Asking price 1000
Estimate 1500 - 2000
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Katarzyna GAWŁOWA
1896 Zielonki - 1982 Zielonki
She bore the maiden name Chrzan. She was born into a poor peasant family. From an early age she had to work hard on the farm. At the same time she manifested artistic aspirations, painting the walls of the household. In 1932 she married a widower with four children. Her husband died in 1939. Her work was discovered in 1973, when she was 77 years old, by Krakow-based visual artists Mieczyslaw Gorowski and Jacek Lodzinski. The first and only vernissage of her works, in the form of a wedding, was held at the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow in 1977, at which time she began painting on dicta and paper. Prior to that, she had painted only on walls, ceilings, doors and stove, from time to time scratching off old motifs and replacing them with new ones.
