Kazimierz Holewinski, STILL NATURE WITH MIRACLES, 1933

97,0 x 82,5 cm - oil, canvas signed p.d.: K. HOLEWIŃSKI | 1933

on the reverse a sketch of a nude covered by a sketch of a male portrait; in addition, on the upper bar of the frame an auction sticker Agra-Art dated 2000.

Offered painting bears the hallmarks of a careful academic study with a strongly defined drawing that betrays a strong Art Déco style influence.

♣ A fee will be added to the auctioned price in addition to other costs, based on the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Law of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite).

Kazimierz Holewinski in 1923 began his studies at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts (from 1932 the Academy). He received his diploma in 1939. Among others, he studied under Prof. Leonard Pękalski, with whom he also collaborated from 1929 as a creator of church polychromies (church chapel in Radzymin, 1929-1930; church in Iwanowice, Kalisz district, 1934). He was the author of a polychrome design for the cathedral in Chelm, for which he won third prize in a competition in 1937. His last work in the field of monumental painting was a polychrome of the church in Przybyszewo on the Pilica River in 1956 (together with Waclaw Palessa). The second strand of his artistic activity was applied graphics. In 1937 he won first and second prize in the Polish Tobacco Monopoly competition for cigarette packaging. He worked at first as a teacher of advertising and drawing in vocational schools (1938-1945), and then as graphic manager of the weekly magazines "Polish Soldier" (1946-1952) and "Sportsman" (1952-1957).