Tomasz Tatarczyk, DROGA, 1996

69,0 x 99,0 cm - acrylic, paper 69 x 99 cm (in light of passe-partout)
signed on lead p.d.: TOMASZ TATARCZYK 1996

♣ 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).

Tomasz Tatarczyk (Katowice 1947 - Warsaw 2010) studied from 1966-1972 at the Warsaw University of Technology, then from 1976-1981 at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he received his diploma under Prof. Jan Tarasin. From 1980 to 1986 he worked as a teacher at his alma mater. During martial law, he joined the independent art movement, exhibiting in churches. Since the mid-1980s, he was associated with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, had several solo exhibitions there, and participated in group presentations organized by the gallery, such as "4 Foksal Gallery Artists", Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh 1985, "Dialogue", Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1985 and others. In the years 1987-1988 he was a scholarship recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation. In 1990 he won one of the awards at the 15th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting in Szczecin. Tatarczyk's painting is focused, economical, based on single, clearly exposed motifs and a narrow range of colors.