Boguslaw SZWACZ (1912-2009), Untitled, 1957

gouache, paper, 140 x 70 cm.

PROVENANCE:
- From the artist's legacy.
EXHIBITED:
- Bogus ław Szwacz. From Modern to Contemporary, Olszewski Gallery, Warsaw, 2022.
REPRODUCED:
- Piotr Słodkowski, From modernity to contemporaneity, Boguslaw Szwacz's 1957 works in relation to the field of art of the postwar decade, [Warsaw, n.d.] cat. no. 35.

The painting is one of a series of more than a dozen
monumental gouaches
found in the studio of the artist
and pedagogue at the Warsaw Academy of Arts
Fine Arts. Boguslaw Szwacz made his debut
at a difficult time for Polish art, when
socialist realist art was dominant. After
Joseph Stalin's death and the advent of the so-called
"thaw", also in the field of fine arts,
decided to devote his attention to abstract art
abstract art, which he believed was absolutely
universal. Thanks to the scholarship he won
he managed to travel to Paris in 1947.
It was then that he became a member of the group "Le Surréalisme
Révolutionnaire" and established contacts with Fernand
Léger, Édouard Pignon, Estèv
and Noël Arnaud. These two factors caused,
that from 1955 the artist abandoned
figurative painting and began to create
author's concept of Ars-Horme art - the
"Art of Moving the Imagination."