Jerzy KAŁUCKI (1931-2022), "Untitled," 1973

acrylic, canvas, 110 x 80 cm,
signed on the reverse: Jerzy Kalucki 1973 / "A vista" (?).
The painting from the collection of the artist's family.
The Museum of Chelm Land has in its collection a painting similar in composition to the one we present in our auction, titled "Cobalt", from 1973, acrylic, canvas, 110 x 80 cm. This painting was purchased for the museum's collection directly from the author in 1983.
(Source: http://mzch.pl/zbiory2/, ID 153, Inventory No. MCH/S/M/573)

Painter, stage designer, born in 1931 in Lviv. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1951-1957, graduating in the atelier of Andrzej Stopka at the Academy of Fine Arts' Scenography Department. The beginning of his creative work the artist was connected with theater. He worked at the Silesian Theater in Katowice, the Puppet Theater in Torun and the Zagłębie Theater in Sosnowiec. In 1976 he joined the Cracow Group Art Association. From 1981 to 2003 he ran a painting studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He had a number of individual exhibitions of painting and drawing, including in Warsaw, Cracow, Chelm, Cieszyn, Lublin, Zielona Gora, and participated in group exhibitions in England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Switzerland and Canada. His works are in the collections of the National Museum in Cracow, Poznan, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Museum of Chelm Land in Chelm, Museum of Modern Art, Sammlung Jurgen Blum, Hunfeld, Hoffmann galleries, Gorbelheimer-Muhle, as well as in private collections at home and abroad. In her study of Jerzy Kalucki's work, Bożena Kowalska characterizes the artist as follows: "An intellectual and agnostic, with a particular predilection for the sciences, and at the same time an introvert, always discreetly hiding all emotions and personal matters, so also negating all subjectivity - Jerzy Kalucki could not choose any other medium for the issues he was interested in than the language of geometry. (...) The artist himself writes: 'I instinctively chose geometry. Its properties, such as clarity, universality, based on the aprioricity of its basic theorems, were the perfect means for me to construct an image.'" (B. Kowalska, "Spaces of Jerzy Kalucki," EL Gallery Art Center in Elblag, 2007, p. 114).