"Nadmiar Energii" (Excess Energy) by Jan Dobkowski (PL, b. 1942), graphite on paper, signed, dated 1972, loose - 29" x 20" 
 
Dobkowski is a painter and graphic artist born in Poland.  In 1968, he graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Prof. Jan Cybis and together with Jerzy Zieliński, he formed the group Neo-Neo-Neo, which operated until 1970. The exhibition "Secession-Secession?" contributed to his success in Paris and his participation in the exhibition of Polish art, "Polish Contemporary Painting: Sources and Searches." The New York Guggenheim Museum purchased the first red-green painting from Dobkowski's most famous series. During the period of Poland's martial law, he participated in actions of independent culture. Dobkowski was a grantee of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York (1972); he received the C.K. Norwid Award (1978); the Jan Cybis Award for his entire body of work (1994); and he has been awarded the Silver Medal "Meritorious for Culture - Gloria Artis." The works of Dobkowski can be found in numerous collections, among them those of the Art Museum in Łódź , the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Wrocław, the National Museum in Poznań, and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.