ROMAN OPAŁKA (born 1931)
Illustration to the Malay tale Dispute on the smell of food from the book The Ship Turned into Stone, 1967
Poster colour on cardboard.
Roman Opałka is the world well-known, outstanding Polish artist and author of the conception of "counted paintings". The Museum possesses his early works created in the 1960-ties when he was illustrating two editions of Malay and Indonesian fairy tales: The Innocent Tiger and The Ship Turned into Stone, collected by Robert Stiller. The artist had been inspired by the Indonesian shadow theatre and the stone carvings of Borobudur.

MAP 14951, acquired in 1996.