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Peter Potworowski Art

Polish, 1898-1962
Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract and figurative painter who lived and exhibited in Paris, Poland, Sweden and England. Potworowski was born in Warsaw in 1898. After serving in the First World War, Potworowski enrolled at the Warsaw University of Technology to study architecture, though his studies were halted by the Bolshevik campaign. After the end of the Polish-Soviet War in 1921, Potworowski returned to Warsaw and began to study art at the school of Konrad Krzyżanowski. By the following year, he had taken a place at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he studied under Józef Pankiewicz. It was Pankiewicz who incorporated Potworowski into the Paris Commute, or Kapists, a group of Polish artists who travelled to the French capital in 1924. During his seven years in Paris he became personally acquainted with Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Jean Cocteau, Constantin Brancusi and attended for a short time Fernand Léger's studio. It was through this job that he met his first wife Magdalena Mańkowska, a student of anthropology in Paris. After marrying in France, and visiting Britain in 1928, the couple returned to Poland in 1930, where their first son John was born. In 1931, Warsaw was the locale of the first Kapists exhibition, entitled New Generation, which took place at the Artist's Club, Hotel Polonia, and the Institute of Art Propaganda. Here, Potworowski received a prize for his painting Three Women in the Interior. The following year, he held his first solo exhibition at the Makowski Salon in Poznań. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Potworowski escaped to Sweden via Lithuania. It was from here that the artist, with his wife and two young children, made his way to Britain, arriving in 1943. After serving in Scotland, Potworowski settled in London, and in January 1946, an exhibition of 33 of his works was held at the Redfern Gallery. This was followed by regular exhibitions with the Redfern, Gimpel Fils (1948 onwards) and The London Group, to which he was elected a member in 1949. He was also the president of the Association of Polish Artists and published regularly in the monthly magazine "Nowa Polska". Making his way to Cornwall, Potworowski took a studio at Sancreed near Penzance. The landscape here invigorated his work and he painted extensively in the Duchy. In 1956, Potworowski was elected to the Royal West of England Academy and in 1960 he won an award at the 30th Venice Biennale. During the 1950s, Potworowski travelled and painted extensively with his professional and romantic partner Doreen Heaton Potworowska, visiting much of Europe before returning to his native Poland in 1958, where the artist spent the last four years of his life. He died in Warsaw in 1962. In 1996 a major retrospective exhibition was held at the Polish National Gallery of Contemporary Art in Warsaw. Peter Potworowski's work is held extensively in notable private and public collections internationally, including the Victoria Art Gallery, Royal West of England Academy and the Tate.
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Artist: Peter Potworowski
Untitled (Gates and Pink Path), 20th C - Watercolour Landscape Painting, Green
Untitled (Gates and Pink Path), 20th C - Watercolour Landscape Painting, Green

Peter PotworowskiUntitled (Gates and Pink Path), 20th C - Watercolour Landscape Painting, Green

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Untitled (Gates and Pink Path), 20th C - Watercolour Landscape Painting, Green

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Peter Potworowski 1898-1962 Untitled (Gates and Pink Path) watercolour with crayon 24 x 32.5 cm 9 1/2 x 12 3/4 in unsigned Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract a...

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20th Century Peter Potworowski Art

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Cornish Beach, 1953/1954 - Colourful Landscape Watercolour Painting, Green + Red
Cornish Beach, 1953/1954 - Colourful Landscape Watercolour Painting, Green + Red

Peter PotworowskiCornish Beach, 1953/1954 - Colourful Landscape Watercolour Painting, Green + Red, 1953/1954

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Cornish Beach, 1953/1954 - Colourful Landscape Watercolour Painting, Green + Red

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Peter Potworowski 1898-1962 Cornish Beach, 1953/1954, circa watercolour 17 x 22.5 cm 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in unsigned Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract and figurative...

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20th Century Peter Potworowski Art

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Watercolor

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