Oil on canvas, 54 x 45 cm, framed 57 x 48 cm, signed and dated p.d. 'Ant. Fałat 18 VI 91', l.d. '16
About the Author: Born in 1942 in Warsaw, Poland. In 1969 he received his diploma from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, in the studio of A. Kobzdej. A year later he founded the Warsaw group "Aut", whose program was: "Polish style, Polish figuration, Polish exoticism". In 1992 he became the rector of the private European Academy of Arts in Warsaw. Antoni Fałat often uses family photographs, which serve him as models for his paintings, which are also dominated by "photographic" colors (black, white, gray) sometimes enriched with green or ultramarine. A large part of his works is thematically related to Polish reality: the series "Polish Portraits", "Poland of the Pharaohs". He participated in the Festivals of Polish Painting in Szczecin (1970, 1974, 1978, 1980), in the Festivals of Fine Arts in Warsaw Zachęta (1970, 1972, 1974). In the 1980s he participated in the independent culture movement. In 1992-96 he was a member of the Council of Culture under the President of the Republic of Poland. In 1997 he received the Medal of the National Education Commission. Winner of the Gold Medal at the 3rd Zachęta Fine Arts Festival and the Gold Medal of the Bielska Autumn. In 2005, presentation of paintings at the United Nations in Geneva. Works in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, Cracow, Gdansk, Zachęta Gallery, Ghent Museum, Pushkin Museum and the Art Institute in Moscow.
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