Piotr Potworowski, LAGOW LANDSCAPE, circa 1958.

29,8 x 42,0cm - oil, fiberboard signed on the reverse: P. Potworowski | Landscape from Lagow



The painting was most likely created around 1958. In that year Piotr Potworowski returned to Poland after eighteen years living outside the country. He spent the summer with friends and fellow Capists (including Jan Cybis) in Lagow. He became enamored with the Polish landscape. It was then that he created Landscape from Lagow (now in the collection of the National Museum in Poznan). Landscape from Lagow, presented here, is a sensitive study of the landscape, maintained in characteristic green tones. In his work, Potworowski sought to limit the range of colors, bringing out the richness of tones with a narrowed color scale. Potworowski's paintings, created by him, are based on a narrow, discreet palette, thinly applied layers of color and testify to the artist's extraordinary painterly sensitivity.





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Piotr Potworowski (Warsaw 1898 - Warsaw 1962)- painter, stage designer, educator - began his artistic studies after 1921 at the Warsaw school of Konrad Krzyzanowski. In 1922 he moved to Krakow, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Jozef Pankiewicz. In 1924, together with a group of fellow Capists, he went to Paris. There he attended the studio of Fernand Léger, traveled to Spain and North Africa, and from 1927 participated in Parisian exhibitions. In 1928-1929 he was in England. In 1930 he returned to the country, settled in Rudki and then in Grębanin near Kepno. During the war he found himself in Sweden, and from 1943 in Great Britain, where he remained for a longer period, carrying out lively artistic and pedagogical activities. He was president of the Association of Polish Artists in Britain, and from 1949 to 1958 was a professor at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham. In 1958 he returned to Poland and became a professor at the State Higher Schools of Fine Arts in Gdansk and Poznan. He painted landscapes, nudes, still lifes and interiors.