Artist: MAREK ZULAWSKI (1908-1985)

Title: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (original signed oil on canvas, presently unframed)

Description: Marek Zulawski is well known as a painter, printmaker, illustrator, muralist and maker of works in collage. He was born in Rome of Polish parents, and settled in London in about 1936.  He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, AIA, and extensively in Poland and the United States. His work is held in numerous public collections in Britain and overseas.  A lithograph from 1954, titled 'Man Asleep', is in the collection of Manchester City Art Gallery. He normally signed his work 'Marek'.

For more information on this artist see: www.marekzulawski.co.uk and http://www.bu.uni.torun.pl/

We currently have two good early works by Marek, a lithograph from the 1950s which is listed separately, and this fine original oil on canvas which is signed and dated (19)47. It is in excellent untouched condition and measures  28 x 36 inches. Although the painting is not titled, the subject is The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

The provenance of the painting is the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Trust and subsequent Christie's auction of 26th August 1981, when it was fully catalogued.  We acquired the painting from the daughter of the buyer at Christie's...

Price: £1200.00

Size: 28 x 36 inches

Shipping: £30.00 to UK

Ref #: 0339