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Roman Opałka
Polish painter
Roman Opałka (Polish: [ˈrɔman ɔˈpawka]; 27 August 1931 – 6 August 2011) was a French-born Polish painter, whose works are mostly associated with conceptual art.
Opałka was born on 27 August 1939 in Abbeville-Saint-Lucien, France, to Polish parents.
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The family returned to Poland in 1946 and Opałka studied lithography at a graphics school before enrolling in the School of Art and Design in Łódź. He later earned a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He moved back to France in 1977.[1] Opałka lived in Teille, near Le Mans, and Venice.[2] He died at age 79 after falling ill while on holiday in Italy.
He was admitted to a hospital near Rome and died there a few days later, on 6 August 2011.[1]
Work
In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opałka began painting numbers from one to infinity.
Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers wer