Oil on cardboard, signed and dated ld.: "H. CWALICKA 1956"
Dimensions in frame: 78x58 cm (70x50 cm)
Helena Cyganska-Walicka (Grodzisk Mazowiecki 1913 - 1989 Warsaw) - Polish painter, book illustrator. Wife of art historian Michał Walicki. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, a student of Prof. Jan Cybis. She received her diploma in 1948. In 1945-1982 she was a member of the Association of Polish Artists, taking part in most of the exhibitions of the Warsaw branch of the Association. She participated in each of the four All-Polish Art Exhibitions in Warsaw (1950-1954), where she won prizes in 1951 and 1952. Twenty solo exhibitions of her work were organized at home and abroad. In her work, she drew on the experience of the Warsaw School, also taking inspiration from colorism and the informel style, presenting paintings rich in purely painterly, color and textural effects. She created still lifes, portraits and landscapes.
