technique: wood, polychrome bark, gold gouache, nails, fiberboard
60 x 27 x 4 cm - dimensions in frame
on the reverse Still life with flowers, oil - student work by the artist
The painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Agata Duda Gracz.
Reproduced sculpture:
- Duda Gracz, text: Ireneusz J. Kamiński, selection of illustrations, compilation of biography and bibliography: Agata Duda Gracz, published by Penta, Warsaw 1997, item 5 pp. 153, ill. in color.
In the literature, the presented work functions under the title Icon. However, it is not, in the literal sense, a painting embedded in the Orthodox tradition, although it alludes to icon painting through the hieratic depiction of the figure of Christ and the golden background. Rather, the sculpture evokes associations with the work of Wladyslaw Hasior (with whom the artist was friends), such as through the materials used - real nails that form a crown of thorns, which is also a nimbus around Christ's head.
Religious themes, and above all the Christological theme, were close to the artist raised in the shadow of Jasna Góra. In later years, he painted, among other things, the Stations of the Cross (2000-2001) for the Pauline Monastery in Częstochowa.
Duda Gracz very rarely reached for the sculptural medium - only five compositions are known to art historians - painting was much closer to him. Therefore, the presented object is an extremely interesting opportunity to get acquainted with this area in the artist's work.
♣ to the auctioned price, in addition to other costs, will be added a fee resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Law 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 Museum in Warsaw, Cracow, Poznan, Wroclaw and Gdansk, the Jagiellonian University Museum in Collegium Maius in Cracow, the Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, the art collection 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 galleries and collections in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA, Venezuela, Great Britain, Italy and Hungary.