Teresa Pągowska (1926-2007), Abstract Composition, 1960

watercolor, ink, paper, 30 x 40 cm, signed and dated on the back: "Teresa Pągowska 60", on the back number: "54" in a circle, and stamp: "Conservator Provincial".



She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań under the direction of W. Taranczewski and E. Wasilkowski, where she received her diploma in 1951. At that time she was an assistant at the Poznan PWSSP (1949-1950), and from 1950 at the Gdansk PWSSP, including from 1958-1962 in the Painting Studio of Prof. P. Potworowski. From 1962 to 1964 she led the Painting Studio at the Gdansk school. From 1971 to 1973 she taught at the PWSSP in Lodz, and from 1973 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and has been a professor at the Academy since 1988. She is a laureate of the Kazimierz Ostrowski Prize awarded in 2002. In the same year, the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk awarded her an honorary doctorate.