Eugeniusz Markowski, ACTS, circa 1989.

43.0 x 30.8cm - oil, cream paper inscription in author's hand l.g.: Il nudo da ritare 138 x 114., inscription in pencil. (author's hand?) illegible p.d. On the reverse p.g. and on the obverse g. longhand and flam. notes concerning mostly the art market of the 1980s, on the reverse d. inscription in red flam.: MARIUSZ ROSIAK | POZNAŃ.

Provenance: collection of the artist's family.



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Eugeniusz Markowski (Warsaw, November 8, 1912 - Warsaw, February 24, 2007) studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, receiving his diploma from Professor Tadeusz Pruszkowski in 1939. He took part in the September campaign and the defense of Warsaw. From 1940 to 1950 he was in Italy, where he was associated with the Libera Associazione Arti Figurative group and the Art Club in Rome. He was also involved in designing sets for Rome's Teatro delle Arti. He was a journalist and diplomat in Italy and Canada (1945-1955). After returning to Poland, he was director of the Office of Cultural Cooperation with Foreign Countries at the Ministry of Culture and Art (1960-1969), then lecturer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1969-1984). He co-worked as a stage designer with the Gdansk Opera and Warsaw theaters. In 1963 he represented Poland at the Sao Paulo Biennale and had several solo exhibitions. His expressive style of painting, directness and a certain rubbishiness of his figurative representations of fights and struggles caused him to be considered a forerunner of the "nova" in the 1980s.