Eugeniusz Dzierzencki (1905 Warsaw - 1990 Sopot), At Sea

oil, cardboard, 24 × 32 cm in light passe-partout
Signed l. d.: "E.Dzierzencki"

"I rarely have a day without painting. Sometimes I feel bad, it is difficult for me to sit down at the easel. As soon as I get going, I warm up immediately feel good! Then I start working with passion, everything pulsates in me! (...) "I paint not only with my hand guiding the brush - the whole body is in tension, every nerve in me vibrates. Then I feel what life is! I dabble with the idea of a painting from the very morning - only in the evening I get "nasil" - then it goes electronically! I paint right away - I don't sketch! I want there to be a mood, an atmosphere, an action in the painting - not just a color play. Painting has to appeal to a feeling, to stir up something real in us. So it is necessary to put this feeling into it - and in an understandable, clear, communicative way - and not just an understood speculation. Maybe that's why my paintings reach people" (...)
T. Rafałowski, "Everything in me pulsates" [interview with Eugeniusz Dzierzencki] "Dziennik Bałtycki", 5-6.IV.1980, p. 10.