Jerzy Duda Gracz, KAMION - JESTER ETIUDA, 2003

39.0 x 49.0cm - oil, cardboard signed l.d.: D.G. 2890/2003.

On the back of the cardboard inscriptions in marker.

On the back of the binding six stickers:

- ¶ author's sticker, filled in by hand with details of the painting;

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

- sticker with round stamp: WSC | MUZEUM ŚLĄSKIE, inscription in the rim: 80 YEARS OF THE SILESIAN MUSEUM IN KATOWICE 1924-2004;

- Silesian Museum in Katowice 19 II - 10 IV 2005;

- Copper Museum in Legnica 15 IV - 28 V 2005;

- Tichauer Art Gallery and Agra Art, Tychy 1 July - 24 September 2023.

Inscription l.g. in lead: 12,000.

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's, Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy 1 VII 2023 - 24 IX 2023.

Reproduced image:

- Jerzy Duda Gracz. Pro memoria. Wroclaw collection (exhibition cat.), Wroclaw City Museum, Wroclaw 2005, p. 87, color ill., cat. no. 85;

- Polish Summer. Duda Gracz at Tichauer, Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy 2023, p. 97, color ill.

Nature was a constant inspiration for Duda Gracz. He visited his favorite places in Poland, among which was the eponymous Kamion on the Warta River. He wrote about his favorite, peripheral places as follows: It is quiet, beautiful, peaceful and far from the hustle and bustle of Very Important Everyday Things. There are skies, clouds, rains, snows, fogs, sunrises and sunsets, meadows, fields, grasses, trees, gardens, streams, ponds and byways, old cottages, crooked houses, mossy fences.... (...) It's best to paint all this according to the recipe of, the aforementioned, my Confirmation Patron, St. Joseph Chelmonski, that is, "at dawn, during fog, at dusk or on bright moonlit nights." That's when the Landscape gets organized, "amphibious," sacralized, because it ceases to be a plaything of the flickering, changing impressions of the sun, and that's when you can best see what's alive in it: a Man, a Cow, a Dog or a Hen. (quoted in Notes on Life and the Art of Passing [in:] Duda Gracz. Provincial and Municipal Images. Polish Borderlands 2000, Silesian Library Publishing House, pp. 9-10)

♣ to the price auctioned, 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 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, 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 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.