Dimensions: 174 x 70 x 50.5 cm (dimensions of each work)
Signed and dated: '1998/99' inside individual figures
Origin
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Collection of Marsha and Robin Williams
Desa Unicum, 29.10.2019
private collection, Europe
Exhibited
The Art Fair Basel, 16.07-21.07.1999 (Marlborough Gallery)
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany, August-October 2001.
Salamanca ciudad de la escultura, Salamanca, Spain, June-August 2005
Literature
Magdalena Abakanowicz. Walking Figures / Walking Figures, exhibition catalog, Kordegarda Gallery, introduction. Danuta Wróblewska, Wojciech Krukowski, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw 1999, cover (ill.).
Abakanowicz'99, Zachęta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw 1999.
Abakanowicz on the Roof, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.
Deux femmes dans les Jardins du Palais Royal: Magdalena Abakanowicz - Beverly Pepper, Paris 1999, pp. 1-3 nlb (note)
Abakanowicz, introduction by Jasia Reichardt, pp. 4-5 nlb.
About the Magdalena Abakanowicz exhibitions in 1999, p. 7 nlb. (il.)
Abakanowicz. Recent Exhibitions and Installations, exhibition catalog, Marlborough Gallery, New York 2000, introduction by Jasia Reichardt pp. 3, pp. 40-41 (note), cover (il), pp. 38-39
Proyecto. Parque de la memoria, Comision pro Monumento a las Victimas del Terrorismo de Estado, exhibition catalog, Buenos Aires 2003 (Julio), introduction not signed, Un proyecto para no olvidar p. 6-8, MA, pp. 26-27 (il.)
Biography
Magdalena Abakanowicz studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1950-54. She practiced sculpture. The first works that brought her international fame were her monumental, spatial tapestries with relief texture Abakanas. Her sculptures are made in a variety of techniques and materials: ceramics, wood, bronze, plastic - both figurative and non-figurative. She has made and completed many projects for public places and museums. In 1965-90 she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. She is the author of erudite essays on art, mythology, religion. In 1965 she was awarded the Grand Prix at the Sao Paulo Biennale. By world critics she is counted among the top artists of the 20th century.
