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425.
Family - Krystyna, 1979
Oil on canvas, 189 * 80
Unsigned
Inv. no MNK II-b-2894 (319 977)
Gift of the City Council of Cracow, 1982

Tadeusz KANTOR

BM

Wielopole (in the Tarnow district) 1915 - Cracow 1990
He studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts between 1934 and 1939, at first under Wladyslaw
Jarocki and Jozef Pienkowski, and from 1937 under Karol Frycz. In 1942 he founded the "Under-
ground Theatre" in Cracow, and in 1945 the Group of Young Plastic Artists. He co-organized the
Cracow Group, reactivated in 1957.
A painter, graphic artist, stage designer and director, theoretician of art, and founder of the "Cricot
2" Theatre. He was one of the most famous Polish artists-innovators of the 20th c. From surreal-
ism he passed towards the in/ormet painting; he practiced the embahage and multipart. He
organized happenings (mainly in the 1960s), while in the 1980s he focused his attention on the
"Cricot 2" Theatre; after the mid 1980s he created canvases based on expressive experiences of
the "closed theatre".


426.
Abstract Composition 1946
Oil on canvas, 46.5 * 60
Unsigned
Inv. no MNK II-b-2481 (317 439)
Purchased in the PP DESA in 1976


427.
Metaphorical Picture H 1950
Oil on canvas, 89 * 112
Unsigned; on the reverse the inscription:
T Kan tor I 1950
Inv. no MNK II-b-1513 (308 951)
Taken over from the CBWA in 1960


428.
Metaphorical Picture 1, 1950/1951
Oil on canvas, 90 * 113
Unsigned
Inv. no MNK II-b-1512 (308 952)
Taken over from the CBWA in 1960