DUDA-GRACZ JERZY (1941 - 2004), Autokarykatura

pen on paper, light passe-partout: 18.5 x 10.5 cm, framed: 39 x 30,5 cm, work framed in a frame behind glass with decorative passe-partout

Unique, double-sided work by Jerzy Duda-Gracz depicting a caricatured self-portrait of the artist (low silhouette, prominent stomach, disproportionately short legs) with an ironic grimace on his face. In his hand, the figure holds a fly swatter used to annihilate persistent insects interfering with creative work. Self-portrait-caricatures, however, without personal notes, had been created before. One of them is reproduced in the catalog "Retrospective Jerzy Duda-Gracz", published by the Nowa Huta Cultural Center in Cracow in 2015. On the back there are the author's personal notes and the stamp of the LUBUSKIE LAND MUSEUM.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist's daughter, Agata Duda-Gracz.

JERZY DUDA-GRACZ - born in 1941 in Częstochowa, died in 2004 in
Lagow. He was a painter, illustrator, stage designer and educator. He graduated from the Faculty of
Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. In 1976-82 he was a lecturer at this university and later
Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He also taught at the European
Academy of Arts in Warsaw (1992-2001). What distinguishes his paintings is not only
excellent technique, but also attention to detail. Duda - Gracz has in his entire body of work
artistic output of 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 also participated in about 300 exhibitions
national 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. His paintings are in the collections of
National Museums in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Wroclaw and Gdansk, in the Museum of the
Jagiellonian University in Collegium Maius in Cracow, the Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences in

Warsaw, in the art collections at Jasna Gora in Czestochowa and other museums
district and municipal museums and in private collections, including those of W. Ochman and W. Fibak; abroad
abroad - in the collections of the Uffizi in Florence, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the City Museum in Ghent, the
City Museum in Ghent, in 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, USA, Venezuela, UK,
Italy and Hungary.

www.jerzydudagracz.pl