Zdzislaw Beksinski, Untitled

ink, paper, 26.5 x 20.5 cm (in light of passe-partout) signed p.g.: BEKSIŃSKI

origin: private collection, Lodz

Zdzislaw Beksinski (1929 Sanok - 2005 Warsaw) Between 1947 and 1952 he studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology. For the next few years he worked in the profession. At that time he became interested in artistic photography and also began his first attempts at drawing and painting. In 1955, he returned to his family home in Sanok. He was a self-taught artist. He began his artistic activity with photograms and photomontages, then created works on the borderline of painting and sculpture, before turning to drawing. Since the mid-1970s Beksinski has dealt almost exclusively with oil painting, using a technique peculiar to himself. Years later he would call this period (until the early 1980s) the "fantastic period. In 1977 he leaves Sanok and moves permanently to Warsaw. He establishes contact with the Parisian marchand Piotr Dmochowski. He exhibited in France, Germany and almost all important centers in Poland. In 1999, the Historical Museum prepared the largest retrospective exhibition of the artist at the castle in Sanok. The Historical Museum in Sanok also has the richest collection of the artist's works.
He readily used computer techniques in the collages he created before his death.
He died tragically on February 22, 2005.