Dimensions: 97 x 60 cm
Signed and dated on the reverse: 'Maria Jarema | 48 r | Composition | Cat. no. 28'.
On the reverse a paper sticker with the description of the work: 'Composition | 61,5 x 97 cm | Dr. Siuda - Beech' and paper exhibition sticker: 'Exhibition of works by Maria Jarema | 9-31 December 1994 | Municipal Gallery "Arsenal" | in Poznan | 188'.
Origin
collection of Kornel Filipowicz
collection of Dr. Lech Siuda, Buk
private collection, Lodz
Polish Art Auction House, 2001
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
First Exhibition of Modern Art, Palace of Art, Cracow, 19.12.1948-19.01.1949
Maria Jarema. Monotypes, gouaches, tempera, drawings, sculptures. Works from 1939-1958, Arsenal City Gallery, Poznan, 9-31.12.1994.
"Contemporaries 1948-1954" ("1st Exhibition of Modern Art. 50 Years Later. Contemporaries and Socialist Realism"), Gallery
Zachęta Contemporary Art Gallery, Warsaw, 10.04-10.05.2000
Literature
Exhibition of Modern Art, exhibition catalog, Palace of Art, Cracow 1948, nlb. (index)
Maria Jarema, exhibition catalog, Palace of Art, Krzysztofory Gallery, Cracow 1962, p. 21 (mentioned), 40 (catalog of all works)
Maria Jarema. Monotypes, gouaches, tempera, drawings, sculptures. Works from 1939-1958, exhibition catalog, Arsenal City Gallery, ed. Mariusz Rosiak, Poznan 1994, nlb. (il.)
Aneta Szyłak, Maria Jarema, "Newspaper of Painters and Poets," no. 1, 1995 (photo from exhibition at the Arsenal City Gallery in Poznań)
Maria Jarema 1908-1958, exhibition catalog, Zachęta Gallery of Contemporary Art, National Museum in Wroclaw, ed. Barbara Ilkosz, Wroclaw 1998, p. 68 (photo from the First Exhibition of Modern Art), 177 (mentioned)
I Exhibition of Modern Art fifty years later, exhibition catalog, Starmach Gallery, ed. Marek Świca, Józef Chrobak, Kraków 1998, pp. 186 (il.), 116-117, 121 (photos from I Exhibition of Modern Art)
Biography
Studied in 1929-35 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of X. Dunikowski. While still a student, she became associated with the Cracow Group, which brought together avant-garde artists with radical artistic and social views. She participated in exhibitions of the Group and ZZPAP, presenting sculptures at first, and only from 1938 paintings. At the same time, she worked as a stage designer and actress with the "Crico" theater, founded by her brother, Jozef Jarema, and with Adam Polewka's puppet theater. In 1937 she went to Paris for several months of study. In the post-war period, she took an active part in the political and artistic life of the Cracow art community. She exhibited extensively at home and abroad (including at the XXIX Venice Biennale), participated in scenography and sculpture competitions, and collaborated as before with the theater, this time Tadeusz Kantor's "Cricot 2." The 1950s were also the apogee of the development of her painting work. It was then that she created the monotype series Heads, Expressions, Rhythms, Filters and Penetrations. The artist created her own original world of forms endowed with great expressive power enhanced by the composition punishing them to intermingle in moving, changing arrangements.
