Asking price 12000
Estimate 17000 - 18000
Relief, own technique, canvas; 46 x 55 cm
Signed p.d.: R.O. 62; on the reverse: R. Owidzki | 1962 | 46 cm x 55; paper sticker with author's description of work
Roman OWIDZKI
1919 Ostrowy - 2002 Warsaw
In 1931-34 he studied sciences and then painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the studio of K. Tische and J. Kurzątkowski. The war interrupted his studies and he received his diploma in 1955, at the Graphic Arts Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, of which he was already a teacher by then. During the war, he was a prisoner of the oflag in Murnau, where, together with J. Soltan, B.T. Urbanowicz and A. Siemaszko, they produced stage designs for plays staged by the camp theater. Since 1956, he led a studio of solids and planes at the Academy of Fine Arts, which was later called the studio of "visual actions and structures." In the late 1960s, he created abstract oil compositions. He cooperated with the "Crooked Circle" Gallery of M. Bogusz, participated in "Confrontations 1965" in Elblag, the Symposium of Artists and Scientists in 1966, in Puławy, his works were exhibited at the exhibition "Space, Movement, Light" in 1967 in Wrocław.
