on the reverse in red marker on canvas l.g.: 14-42
Provenance:
The painting comes from the collection of Ireneusz Dembowski, secretary of the Krzywe Koło Gallery in Warsaw, run by Marian Bogusz between 1956 and 1965.
Sosnowski studied art in 1935-1939 at the Painting Department of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Wojciech Jastrzębowski. After the war in Lodz, he organized art education and established the Lodz branch of the ZPAP. Associated with the leftist movement, he was director of the Workers' House of Culture in Lodz and chief editor of the monthly magazine "Świetlica". From 1947 he was the artistic director of the weekly "Kuźnica" and moved to Warsaw with its editors in 1949. In 1955, he joined the "Group 55" and participated in its first exhibition, which took place in August in Warsaw's "Desa" salon in the Old Town. Sosnowski was associated with the established Crooked Circle Gallery, renamed the Gallery of Modern Art in 1962, for ten years. In 1962 he had a solo exhibition at the EL Gallery in Elblag, and was one of the initiators of the Biennial of Spatial Forms there. In 1969 he received the prestigious Cyprian Kamil Norwid Award. In 1972, he founded "Gallery 72" in Chelm Lubelski, the management of which he later handed over to Bożena Kowalska. He was very active, exhibiting his works in domestic and foreign galleries. In the mid-1950s he painted a moody and metaphorical series of paintings under the title "Lyrical Diary." Since the late 1950s, he has used abstract forms. At that time he created a series of non-objective "White paintings", then (1961-1962) he created the first classical "Empty paintings" addressing the issue of emanation of light in them. In the cycles that followed, he considered the problems of science that intrigued him. In a series of chemical paintings "Metalepseis" (from 1972) he deals with phenomena from the avisual world, while in a series of sewn paintings, compositions composed of sewn pieces of canvas "Catalipomena" (from 1975) he refers to ecological content. Since 1980, the artist gave the name "Interventions" to sewn paintings maintained in one color. Until the end of his life he also developed a series of works entitled. "Equivalent Arrangements" combining other techniques and principles. A detailed analysis of Sosnowski's intellectual creative path is carried out by the artist's monographer Bożena Kowalska in her book Kajetan Sosnowski - painter of invisible worlds, which accompanied the artist's solo exhibition at the Zachęta Gallery in 1998.
