1908-1985

Zulawski's world is stripped almost bare of elegance and charm. There is an immense power and profound silence in whatever he paints (Edwin Mullins, Art News & Review, 1960)

Marek, it seems to me, is unworried by a search for novelty for its own sake and uses the current idions of painting as the natural and only possible pictorial language of his time. Equally, his handling of paint is businesslike and unrhetorical. What really interests him is humanity revealing itself in work, in eating and drinking, in sleeping, in loving....sombre to the point of monochrome - Michael Middleton, Foreword, Zwemmer Gall show.

....he eliminates anything that may detract attention from his purpose, formal and philosophical. It is the same sort of simplicity that is implicit in Piero della Francesca's frescoes or the Ravenna mosaics - Martyn Goff, The Studio

Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Arts, before settling in London in 1937 and later becoming a British citizen. He was a well-known figure in British art, with one-man exhibitions at Agnew's, Gimpel Fils, Redfern Gallery and a series of shows at Zwemmer Gallery.