Dariusz Miliński, The Wizards of Pławna, 2025

oil on canvas, 70 x 70 (99 x 99 when framed), signed lower left: 'D. MILINSKI 24' and inscribed on the reverse: '"THE WIZARDS OF PŁAWNA" | SOME HAVE LEFT THE TABLE OF EMPTY | EVENTS AND ALCOHOL-FUELED PARTIES, | THEY TRY ON THEIR OWN TO CHANGE | THE COURSE OF EVENTS—AND SO I, TOO, HAVE JOINED | THIS PLACE. I WONDER IF THE SPARKS | FIRED INTO SPACE BY THE MOST BRILLIANT THEATER | WILL STILL BE ACTIVE A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW IN FUTURE | GENERATIONS—OR WILL THAT SAME RESPECT | FOR NATURE AND HUMANITY WILL BE EXPRESSED | WITH GREATER TENDERNESS, OR WHEN THE OWNERS OF THIS | PAINTING WILL BE ABLE TO RAISE A TOAST | INREMEMBERING THE ARTIST, WHOM THEY | THUS BRING BACK TO LIFE—AND THIS IS MY IMMORTALITY | D. Milinski 2025 THE FIRST PAINTING OF THE YEAR'