Jan Sawka’s Fictional Characters

This is a post about Jan Sawka (1946–2012), a proponent of the postwar Polish Poster school whose theatrical and jazz posters are well-known around the world. Yet his work often ran afoul of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Poland, and in 1976 he was expelled from his homeland. He was one of the first artists-in-residence at the Pompidou Center shortly after its opening. That same year Sawka represented France and the Pompidou Center in an exhibition of his wor