Paintings by Alfred Lenica wanted
I am looking for paintings, drawings and prints by Alfred Lenica. I buy directly from private owners, without auctions or galleries. A fair price and complete discretion. Correspondence in English or Polish is equally welcome.
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I buy directly from owners. I am particularly interested in works from his mature abstract period (the 1950s to the 1970s), but I consider every offer.
Oil paintings
All periods: still lifes and landscapes from the 1930s, works from the circle of the 4F+R group, abstractions from the mid-1950s on.
Drawings and watercolours
Works on paper, sketches, studies, in any size and technique.
Prints
Original impressions in printmaking techniques.
Any condition
Including works in need of conservation, without a frame or with an uncertain attribution.
Alfred Lenica
1899–1977Born on 4 August 1899 in Pabianice. From 1922 he studied law and economics at Poznań University, music at the conservatory at the same time, and learned painting from Piotr Kubowicz.
In the 1930s he painted mainly still lifes and landscapes. He spent the war in Kraków, where he came into contact with the circle of Tadeusz Kantor. In 1945 he returned to Poznań, and in 1947 he co-founded the avant-garde group 4F+R. From 1955 his mature style took shape, combining Tachisme, Surrealism, Informel and dripping.
He was the father of the graphic artist and animator Jan Lenica and of Danuta Konwicka. He died in Warsaw on 16 April 1977.
- 1899Born in Pabianice on 4 August.
- 1922Studies in Poznań; painting lessons with Piotr Kubowicz.
- 1930sStill lifes and landscapes.
- 1945Returns to Poznań after the war years in Kraków.
- 1947Co-founder of the 4F+R group.
- 1955His mature abstract style takes shape.
- 1958Exhibition at the Zachęta, Warsaw.
- 1959–1960The mural Three Elements (Trzy żywioły) for the United Nations in Geneva.
- 1973A cycle of 14 paintings, Chile, Chile.
- 1977Dies in Warsaw on 16 April.
Direct purchase
I buy from private owners, without auctions, galleries or commission.
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