Moonlight String Puppet with a Broken Heart, 2002

Oil on canvas with gold leaf, 90 x 120 cm, signed and dated lower centre, signed and inscribed verso, housed in the artist’s signature gold frame with linen slip and fillet.

Polish born artist Henryk Szydlowski attained his Masters of Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, before emigrating to New Zealand in the 1970s where he was a lecturer at the Whitcliffe Art School. Szydlowski exhibited his oils and linocuts in Australia and New Zealand, relocating to Perth in the mid 1980s. His work is highly decorative, and a poetic contemporary articulation of the abstract expressionism originating in the works of Klee, Kandinsky and other European masters.