Dimensions: 61 x 61 cm
Signed and dated on the reverse: 'J. Stanczak 1969'
On the reverse: gallery stickers from Galerie Denise René/Hans Mayer and D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc. Gallery in New York
Origins
Galerie Denise René - Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (until 1978)
private collection, West Germany
D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc, New York
DESA Unicum, 2013
private collection, Poland
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Julian Stanczak, Galerie Denise René - Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, 29.05-8.07.1970
"Op Out of Ohio: 'Anonima Group, Richard Anuszkiewicz and Julian Stanczak in the 1960s'", D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc. Gallery, New York, 15.04-3.09.2010
Literature
Op Out of Ohio: Anonima Group, Richard Anuszkiewicz and Julian Stanczak in the 1960s, exhibition catalog, D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc. Gallery, New York, p. 28 (ill.)
Marta Smolinska, Julian Stanczak. Op art and the dynamics of perception, Warsaw 2014, p. 179 (il.)
Biography
Polish painter residing in the United States, one of the pioneers of op art. In 1940 he and his entire family were arrested by the Soviets and deported to Siberia. As a result of hard labor and illness, he lost power in his right hand. He fled the Soviet Union with his family to Africa, where he lived in a camp for refugees from Poland. He spent his youth in Uganda where he took his first lessons in drawing with his left hand. He had his first exhibition of his work in Nairobi (Kenya). In 1949 he emigrated with his family to the UK, where he began studying at London Polytechnic and in 1950 moved to the US. There he began his studies at the Cleveland Art Institute, graduating in 1954, and then studied at Yale, where he earned a Master of Art Sciences degree. In 1964 he became a professor of painting at the Cleveland Art Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.
