Eugeniusz Dzierzencki (1905 Warsaw - 1990 Sopot), Sopot, 1948.

oil, canvas, 55 × 89 cm
Signed and dated l. d.: "E.Dzierzencki/Sopot 1948"

"Marine art has always been in me. Even as a child, I would smear my "marine" watercolors on the floor to hide them under the closet as soon as possible, when one of the household members showed up. "Drop it right away," one shouted at me. You won't eat bread from this." Shortly after school, I made a number of works with maritime themes for a marshal who had his gallery in Capri and Naples. After that, I was already deciding on the subjects of my paintings myself. How much I traveled to the open air on a bicycle - with a cassette and easel. Before the war - it was Hel and the villages of our coast at that time" T. Rafałowski, "Everything in me pulsates" [interview with Eugeniusz Dzierzencki] "Dziennik Bałtycki", 5-6.IV.1980, p. 10.