Jerzy Duda Gracz, ŁAGÓW - ZMIERZCH, 1996

50,0 x 120,0cm - oil, plate signed l.d.: DUDA GRACZ . 2009/96 .

On the reverse on the plate on the right stickers:

- author's sticker filled in by hand with details of the painting and signature;

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

- exhibition sticker [print]: Legnica Copper Museum | Jerzy Duda Gracz | Pro Memoria | Wroclaw Collection | 15.04. 2005 - 28.05. 2005, museum stamp below;

- exhibition sticker [print]: Silesian Museum in Katowice | Jerzy Duda Gracz - | Pro memoria - | Wroclaw Collection | 19.02. - 10.04.2005, museum stamp on left;

at top on plate, inscription in marker: 5 IV 94.



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


Reproduced image:
- Jerzy Duda Gracz. Pro memoria. Wroclaw collection (exhibition cat.), Wroclaw City Museum, Wroclaw 2005, p. 73, color ill., cat. no. 70;
- Polish Summer. Duda Gracz at Tichauer, Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy VI 2023, p. 86, color ill.


Na Z a c h o d - I have Lagow. Prussian half-timbered houses, gardens, an old tower, a medieval gate, lakes, a park and trees from silver-green to carmine. I first came to Lagow in 1994. It was as if the war had ended yesterday, as if the Germans had fled and the Russkies immediately followed. And indeed. The last units of the Krasna Army left the military base a year ago. The True End of the Great War has come. A somewhat strange Earth. A bit foreign. Post-German? Recovered? Don't I sometimes walk on someone else's longing, trample on someone else's tears, or harm or memory? Surrounding villages, more extinct than in Central or Eastern Poland. Brick cottages and barns more stripped and blind, without windows or doors. Out of twenty cottages, four chimneys are dusting. The young have left, I fell in love with Lagow, the neighboring villages and towns, because they are passing as they do everywhere, but something still managed to catch up. (...) In Lagow, for 26 years now, Polish artists have been painting at the plein-air paintings of Jola Zdrzalik, the Great Lady of the extinct socialist species. So Art for Art's sake? No, it's the art of survival. For the people.


Jerzy Duda Gracz, Notes on the Art of Living and Passing, in Duda Gracz. Provincial and Municipal Images. Polish Borderlands 2000, edited by Monika Branicka, Silesian Library, Katowice 2000, p. 12.



♣ to the price auctioned, in addition to other costs, a fee will be added, 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.