Exhibition: Halina Nalecz In Memoriam

The exhibition "Halina Nalecz - In Memoriam, 1917 Vilnius – 2008 London" is a retrospective and a tribute to Halina Nalecz, a painter and collector who emigrated to England after the Second World War. In 1957, she opened her own gallery at Porchester Place in London, from which she set out to promote contemporary currents of modern art, quickly making the gallery famous. The gallery featured exhibitions by such famous artists as Victor Vaserely, Joseph Lacasse and Cecil Stephenson, as well as Polish artists, including Henryk Berlewi, Tadeusz Ilnicki, Feliks Topolski, Lutka Pink, Piotr Potworowski, Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, and Marek Zulawski. In her own painting career, Halina Nalecz created completely original works, often reminiscent of colourful fairy-tale scenes filled with plants and animals. In 1977, Halina Nalecz donated over 150 paintings and sculptures as well as several works on paper to the National Museum in Warsaw. The current exhibition will commemorate this donation and show several works chosen from the collection in memoriam of Halina Nalecz, who died last year.