No4
Mixed-media photocollage and gouache and colour ink
39.60 x 29.70 cm
signed and dated on theright side of image: BERMAN 45; dedicated on the cardboard at the bottom right: Kochanemu przyjacielowi Jerzemu Pomianowskiemu dziękując za pomoc w przygotowaniu mojej XXX wystawy podaruje M. Berman / Warszawa, 27. lutego 1961 r. (To my beloved Jerzy Pomianowski in thanks for the help in preparation of my XXX exhibition give as a gift / Mieczyslaw Berman / Warsaw 27. February 1961.
On the opposite side of a sheet the number: 129 (exhibition number in 1961), tite and dimentions.
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HAMMER PRICE: 26000 zł
DESCRIPTION
The unique work by the world classic of the photocollage technique.Mieczyslaw Berman is mentioned one by one after such artist and photographers as László Mohol-Nagy, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, John Heartfield, russian Constructivists developers of the techniques of photomontage (El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Gustav Klutsis) and polish pre-war avant-garde artist (Mieczyslaw Szczuka, Teresa Zarnower).
The work by Mieczyslaw Berman are extremely rare on the european and american auctions. They do not appear on the Polish art market!
The author of the photocollage used the portrait photography of Anton Chekhov (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов, 1860-1904) - a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. The photo has been taken in the atelier of Andriej E. Ovsjarenko in Moscow in 1904 - in the year of the death of the writer.
It is the best known portrait photography of Chekhov.
Mieczyslaw Berman has given the "Thinker" as a gift to Jerzy Pomianowski after the one-man show exhibition in 1961 in Zacheta in Warsaw. Pomianowski was a writer, columnist and journalist, for many years a collaborator of paris "Culture" (a leading Polish-émigré literary-political magazin). Jerzy Pomianowski was also a splendid translator of russian literature, among others: the books by Mikhail Bulgakov (Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков), Aleksandr Isayevich (Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын), Leo Tolstoy (Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й), Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова) and Anton Chekhov (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mieczysław Berman. Výstava protifašistických karikatur, S. V. U. Purkyně, Praha 1947 (katalog, poz. 41)„Polska" 1956 nr 5, il. s. 32
Satyra - plakat Mieczysława Bermana, CBWA Zachęta, Warszawa 1961 (katalog, poz. 129, tutaj dodatkowy podtytuł: Homo sapiens)
Mieczysław Berman, Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 1990 (katalog), poz. 105 (por. poz. 396 i 403).
"Chekhov, Anton". Photo. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Web. 16 Feb. 2017.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anton-Chekhov?oasmId=9367
http://www.henkverveer.nl/serieuze%20Zaken/Literatuur%20Tsjechov.html#6JALTA
Urban, Peter, Über Čechov, Herausgegeben von Peter Urban, Zürich, Diogenes Verlag, 1987. il. 679
EXHIBITIONS
1947 - Mieczysław Berman. Výstava protifašistických karikatur, S. V. U. Purkyně, Praga 1961 - Satyra - plakat Mieczysława Bermana, CBWA Zachęta, Warszawa1990 - Mieczysław Berman, Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu
PROVENANCE
Pomianowski was a writer, columnist and journalist, for many years a collaborator of paris "Culture" (a leading Polish-émigré literary-political magazin). Jerzy Pomianowski was also a splendid translator of russian literature, among others: the books by Mikhail Bulgakov (Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков), Aleksandr Isayevich (Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын), Leo Tolstoy (Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й), Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова) and Anton Chekhov (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов).
CONDITION ZACHOWANIA
The work sticked on to the cardboard by the artist (dim.: 62,8 x 47,7 cm), invVery good condition.
Recommend to friends
DESCRIPTION
The unique work by the world classic of the photocollage technique.Mieczyslaw Berman is mentioned one by one after such artist and photographers as László Mohol-Nagy, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, John Heartfield, russian Constructivists developers of the techniques of photomontage (El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Gustav Klutsis) and polish pre-war avant-garde artist (Mieczyslaw Szczuka, Teresa Zarnower).
The work by Mieczyslaw Berman are extremely rare on the european and american auctions. They do not appear on the Polish art market!
The author of the photocollage used the portrait photography of Anton Chekhov (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов, 1860-1904) - a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. The photo has been taken in the atelier of Andriej E. Ovsjarenko in Moscow in 1904 - in the year of the death of the writer.
It is the best known portrait photography of Chekhov.
Mieczyslaw Berman has given the "Thinker" as a gift to Jerzy Pomianowski after the one-man show exhibition in 1961 in Zacheta in Warsaw. Pomianowski was a writer, columnist and journalist, for many years a collaborator of paris "Culture" (a leading Polish-émigré literary-political magazin). Jerzy Pomianowski was also a splendid translator of russian literature, among others: the books by Mikhail Bulgakov (Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков), Aleksandr Isayevich (Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын), Leo Tolstoy (Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й), Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова) and Anton Chekhov (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mieczysław Berman. Výstava protifašistických karikatur, S. V. U. Purkyně, Praha 1947 (katalog, poz. 41)„Polska" 1956 nr 5, il. s. 32
Satyra - plakat Mieczysława Bermana, CBWA Zachęta, Warszawa 1961 (katalog, poz. 129, tutaj dodatkowy podtytuł: Homo sapiens)
Mieczysław Berman, Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 1990 (katalog), poz. 105 (por. poz. 396 i 403).
"Chekhov, Anton". Photo. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Web. 16 Feb. 2017.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anton-Chekhov?oasmId=9367
http://www.henkverveer.nl/serieuze%20Zaken/Literatuur%20Tsjechov.html#6JALTA
Urban, Peter, Über Čechov, Herausgegeben von Peter Urban, Zürich, Diogenes Verlag, 1987. il. 679
EXHIBITIONS
1947 - Mieczysław Berman. Výstava protifašistických karikatur, S. V. U. Purkyně, Praga 1961 - Satyra - plakat Mieczysława Bermana, CBWA Zachęta, Warszawa1990 - Mieczysław Berman, Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu
PROVENANCE
Pomianowski was a writer, columnist and journalist, for many years a collaborator of paris "Culture" (a leading Polish-émigré literary-political magazin). Jerzy Pomianowski was also a splendid translator of russian literature, among others: the books by Mikhail Bulgakov (Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков), Aleksandr Isayevich (Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын), Leo Tolstoy (Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й), Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова) and Anton Chekhov (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов).
CONDITION ZACHOWANIA
The work sticked on to the cardboard by the artist (dim.: 62,8 x 47,7 cm), invVery good condition.
Mieczysław Berman (1903 - 1975) -
Mieczyslaw Berman studied graphic design and typography at the School of Decorative Arts in Warsaw. His exposure to Russian Constructivist poster design and to collages and photomontages by László Moholy-Nagy, Kurt Schwitters, and Hannah Höch provided sources of inspiration for the Constructivist collages he began to make in 1927. In 1930, when he discovered the political...
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