Jerzy Duda Gracz, BUK-VILLAGE OF BUCK - ZMARZLAKI, 1996

61.0 x 100.0 cm - oil, plate signed l.d.: DUDA GRACZ . 1971/96 .

On the reverse on the plate stickers:

- author's sticker filled in by hand with details of the painting and signature;

- exhibition sticker [print]: WROCŁAW MUNICIPAL MUSEUM | Jerzy Duda Gracz - Pro memoria | Wrocław collection | 8 I - 13 II 2005, museum stamp below;

- exhibition sticker [print]: Silesian Museum in Katowice | Jerzy Duda Gracz - | Pro memoria - | Wroclaw collection | 19 Feb - 10 Apr 2005, museum stamp at left;

- exhibition sticker [print]: Legnica Copper Museum | Jerzy Duda Gracz | Pro Memoria | Wroclaw Collection 15.04. 2005 - 28.05. 2005, museum stamp below;

- l.g. Jubilee sticker of the Silesian Museum in Katowice.


Image exhibited:
- Jerzy Duda Gracz - Pro memoria. Wrocław Collection, City Museum of Wrocław 8 I - 13 II 2005, Silesian Museum in Katowice 19 II - 10 IV 2005, Copper Museum in Legnica 15 IV - 28 V 2005;
- Polish Summer. Duda Gracz at Tichauer, Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy 1 VII - 24 IX 2023.


Reproduced painting:
- Duda Gracz. Provincial and Municipal Images. Polish Borderlands 2000, ed. Monika Branicka, Silesian Library, Katowice 2000, p. 15, il. 1 color;
- Jerzy Duda Gracz. Pro memoria. Wrocław collection (exhibition cat.), City Museum of Wrocław, Wrocław 2005, p. 69, ill. in color, cat. no. 66;
- Polish Summer. Duda Gracz at Tichauer, Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy VI 2023, p. 83, color ill.



At P ó ł n o c, I was lured by Basia Warzeńska. The same one who resurrects the Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting in Szczecin. We live in the village of Beech, on the edge of the Goleniowska Forest, in the palace of the Książnica Pomorska, once the von Fleming family. The village itself is actually not there. Not far away, (the open-air sessions are in February) roars the furious sea in Trzęsacz, Kamień Pomorski boasts, and the post-state farm villages of Gryfice, Czarnogłowy, Świeżno, Rybokarty and nomen omen Wlewo and Dziadowo are dying of poverty. We sit in a forested retreat, like a family hollow. It is quiet, good and safe. What a luxury it is, to be together with Those who make it easier to believe in what is getting harder and harder to paint.

Jerzy Duda Gracz, Notes on the Art of Living and Passing, in Duda Gracz. Provincial and Municipal Images. Polish Borderlands 2000, edited by Monika Branicka, Silesian Library, Katowice 2000, p. 12.



♣ to the price auctioned, in addition to other costs, a fee will be added, resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)

Jerzy Duda Gracz (Częstochowa 1941 - Łagów 2004)- painter, illustrator, stage designer, educator. He received his diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Department of Graphics in Katowice in 1968. In 1976-82 he was a lecturer at the academy, then a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice. He also taught at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw (1992-2001).
His paintings are characterized by technical virtuosity and attention to detail. He practiced art in the broadly defined realist convention with dominant figure deformation and grotesque. He created a world of unmasking, using the language of journalism and allegory. He is the author of several major projects, including the "Transfiguration" plafond in the church in Toporovo (1995) and the "Golgotha of Jasna Gora" series in the Monastery of the Pauline Fathers in Czestochowa (2000/2001). The artist has had more than 180 solo exhibitions at home and abroad (including Berlin, London, Paris, Moscow, Rome, Vienna, Florence, Düsseldorf, Chicago, New Delhi, Munich, New York and others). He participated in about 300 national exhibitions and international presentations of Polish art. He represented Poland, among others, at the XLI Art Biennale in Venice in 1984, at the XX and XXI World Art Fairs in Cologne in 1986 and 1987, and at EXPO '92 in Seville. Jerzy Duda Player's paintings are in the collections of the National Museums in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Wroclaw and Gdansk, the Jagiellonian University Museum in Collegium Maius in Krakow, the Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, the art collections at Jasna Gora in Czestochowa and other district and city museums, and in private collections, including those of W. Ochman and W. Fibak; abroad - in the collections of the Uffizi in Florence, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Ghent City Museum, the "BAWAG" Foundation in Vienna and the Vatican Collection, as well as in the galleries and collections of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA, Venezuela, the UK, Italy and Hungary.