Jerzy Duda Gracz, THE VILLAGE OF BRIEFS - HALNA WIND, 1994

45,0 x 50,0cm - oil, plate signed l.g.: DUDA GRACZ . 1756/94 .

On the reverse on the plate 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]: Silesian Museum in Katowice | Jerzy Duda Gracz - | Pro memoria - | Wroclaw collection | 19 Feb - 10 Apr 2005, museum stamp at left.

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



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. 49, color ill., cat. no. 44;
- Polish Summer. Duda Gracz at Tichauer, Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy VI 2023, p. 62, color ill.



In P o ł u d n i a, where I have been going for a quarter of a century, is the village of Brzegi in the Tatra Mountains. Near Bukowina, Jurgów, Białka, to Głodówka with a panorama of the Tatra Mountains - a piece, and when the fogs fall, Gorce can be seen as if on your hand. In the village there are a couple of old cottages and more new, but ugly, and the carved faces of Wojtanek, Skowyr, grandfather Dyrcon of sacred memory and Jozef Nowobilski, the "purring harnass". In Kucowka, though not a highlander, gasps with his wife Gizela Jan Kubarek, who has a weakness for artists. I used to go there for open-air sessions with my students (...) A little way from Brzegi there is Zakopane and a loner close to my heart, Andrzej Dziuk, with his Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz theater, who diligently fulfills Gombowicz's testament in the "backwoods".


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. 10.



♣ 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 collection 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.