Objects

Photograph of a lithograph from Samuel Szczekacz's "Teka malarska" (Paintings Portfolio) ("Futurum" Printing House, Łódź 1938). Szczekacz's "Paintings portfolio" consists of black and white and colour lithographs on one-sided chalk-surfaced paper. The number of lithographs in the portfolio is not known. It is a series of unist compositions, individual in their form, often with labyrinthine motifs and repeated in colour variations (in shades of yellow, dark blues and black), a composition of letters (minuscule) forming a labyrinth, identical, strong, acting with a compact structure. According to Janina Ładnowska, the artist crossed out the letters by hand.

The "Paintings portfolio" is among others in the collection of the Museum of Art in Łódź. This copy contains 16 colour lithographs of various sizes. The portfolio consists of two "Neoplastic Compositions", one "Cubist Neoplastic Composition", ten "Cubist Compositions" and three "Unist Compositions". The portfolio has its doublet, which differs slightly in the colours of individual prints. | RP