Family portrait

The painting “Family Portrait” presents a group of stylized, geometric figures set against a green background. The figures differ in height and proportions, clearly suggesting a generational hierarchy: from the tallest forms to the smaller silhouettes placed at the center. The symmetrical arrangement, with figures positioned on both sides of the composition, creates a sense of order and harmony.

 

The artist employs the language of minimalism and abstraction. The figures are reduced to simple, rhythmic shapes—vertical rectangles and soft oval heads. Distinctive black oval shapes, in place of eyes or mouths, strip them of individuality and transform them into symbols of human beings as elements within social relations.

 

“Family Portrait” can be interpreted as a metaphor for family bonds—both closeness and distance. The varying heights of the figures may represent generations: parents, children, and older family members. The central, smaller figures facing each other appear to symbolize children or younger generations, tying the composition together into a coherent narrative.

 

The painting raises questions about family identity and the place of the individual within a larger social structure. The geometric simplification of forms and the absence of personal features highlight universality—this family could be any family. The work balances intimacy with schema, showing that family ties are at once personal and social, filled with rituals, relationships, and recurring structures.

Series Limits
Year completed 2025
Author Magdalena Nowatkowska
Technique Akryl na bawełnianym płótnie
Dimension

104 x 104 cm x 4 cm / 40.9 x 40.9 x 1.6 (framed)

100 x 100 x 2 cm / 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 (without frame)

Inventory G174
Availability available
Provenance Mazowiecki Auction House Warsaw 2025
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Wszystkie cykle malarskie
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Magdalena Nowatkowska - Borrowed Images - Z004: Z004
Workshop
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Magdalena Nowatkowska - G012:Women in ecstasy - Limits
Women
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G079:Within the Frame of the Body - Limits
Whispers of Movement
Unyielding
Untitled
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Untitled
Magdalena Nowatkowska - B004:Untitled - Nondimentional
Magdalena Nowatkowska - B005:Untitled - Nondimentional
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Magdalena Nowatkowska - Dimentionless Geometric compositions - B009: Untitled
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Dimentionless Geometric compositions - B010: Untitled
Unread signals
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G029:Under the cover of night - Limits
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Magdalena Nowatkowska - G028:U- Limits
Two poles
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The essence of being
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System of connections
Symmetry of Thoughts
Supreme Council
Summertime
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G046:Summer - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G014:Story - Limits
Soothing
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G063 - Solace - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G003:Sky - Limits
Sine wave
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Silence’s Melody
Magdalena Nowatkowska - In-Between - P001: Silence zone
Signals of Presence
Signals of life
Signals of Freedom
Signals of coexistence
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G084:Shared Thoughts - Limits
Shared perspective
Shared future
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G070:Sequence of Movement - Limits
Second signal
Score for a Human
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G082:Save Haven - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G094:Roman Holiday - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G018:Redheads - Limits
Quiet port
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G041:Queue - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G051:Quests - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Pomiędzy - P005: Quadriptych
Pyramid of success
Progressive movements
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G081:Portrait with Hope - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G083:Portrait of Solace - Limits
Pink clouds
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G073 - Pink-eyed-Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G026:Pi- Limits
Phantoms II
Phantoms I
Peony garden
G008-penetration-magdalena-nowatkowska-01
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G027:Penance - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G013:Peak a boo - Limits
Party
Pageant
Outsider
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G077:Outline of Existence- Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G085:Out of Curiosity - Limits
Order
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G080:On the Threshold of the Unknown... - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - In-Between - P004: On the sand
On the path
Olive garden
Ocean of silence
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G054:Observers - Limits
Nudists
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G092:Nudist Beach - Limits
Nature’s Melody
Movement symbiosis
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G002:Mother - limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G038:Moor - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G030:Mirror - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G052:Match - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G050:Man's head down - Limits
Love
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G060:Longing - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G067 - Dialogi liniowe - Granice
Magdalena Nowatkowska - In-Between - P003: Light
Levitation
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G047:Lavender fields - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G032:L- Limits
Kiss
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G031:Kinga- Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G055:Invisible gaze - Limits
Intertwining paths
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Z002:Instalation - Borrowed images
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G062:Infinity II - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G061:Infinity I - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Limits - G102: In the Body Labyrinth IV
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G096:In the Body Labyrinth III - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G095:In the Body Labyrinth II - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G078:In the Body Labyrinth I - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Granice - W przestrzeni
In full sun II
In full sun I
In an embrace
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Limits - G106: Immersion
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G004:Honey - Limits
Hidden signals
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G043:Heads - Limits
Harmony synthesis
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Limits - G098: Harmony of chaos
Harbor
H005
Magdalena Nowatkowska - H004:H004 - Horizons
Magdalena Nowatkowska - H003:H003 - Horizons
Magdalena Nowatkowska - H002:H002 - Horizons
Magdalena Nowatkowska - H001:H001 - Horizons
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G044:H - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G025:Gymnast - Limits
Golden hour
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G001:Girl with her head down - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G049:Girl's with her head down II - Limits
Geometry of passion
Gentlemen
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G040:Gamma - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Limits - G109: Full immersion
Fresh signal
Four poles
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Limits - G110: Forward flip
Flourishing
First signal
Family portrait
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G066 - Evolution of Lines - Limits
Ethereal signals
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G097:Esencja Harmonii - Granice
Entanglements II
Entanglements I
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G045:Ecstasy - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G076:Echoes of Presence II- Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G075:Echoes of Presence I- Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - In-Between - P002: Echo
Dusk
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Limits - G108: Double portrait
Deep water
Curtain
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G058:Crowds - limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G007:Cream - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Granice - Kontury współistnienia
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G064 - Consternation - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G053 - Connection
Compromises
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G005:Coffee with milk - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G011:Close - front - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G010:Close - backwards -Limits
Care
Calming tones
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G042:Calm - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G017:Brunettes - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G016:Bridge - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G089:Breath - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G088:Bow - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Borrowed Images
Borrowed Miniatures
Bodily strings VIII
Bodily strings VII
Bodily strings VI
Bodily strings V
Bodily strings IV
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Magdalena Nowatkowska - G087:Bodily strings II - Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G086:Bodily strings I - Limits
Blue flight
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Limits - G103: Blue bodies
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G074 - Blue-eyed-Limits
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G037:Black sands - Limits
Beyond Borders
Before and after
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Limits - G107: Bathroom
Balance
Magdalena Nowatkowska - Limits - G110: Back flip
Attraction
Magdalena Nowatkowska - G057:Assurance - Limits
Angelic souls
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