65.0 x 89.0 cm - oil, fiberboard signed l.d.: DUDA GRACZ . 1984/96
On the reverse on the panel::
- author's sticker filled in by hand with details of the painting and signature
- exhibition sticker [print]: WROCŁAW MUNICIPAL MUSEUM | Jerzy Duda Gracz - Pro memoria | Wrocław collection | January 8 - February 13, 2005, museum stamp below;
- exhibition sticker [print] Copper Museum in Legnica | Jerzy Duda Gracz | Pro Memoria | Wroclaw Collection | 15.04. 2005 - 28.05. 2005, museum stamp below;
- exhibition sticker [print] Silesian Museum in Katowice | Jerzy Duda Gracz - | Pro memoria- | Wroclaw Collection | 19.02. - 10.04.2005, museum stamp on left;
at l. edge, inscription in marker: 1 XI 95, lower: p. Olbr. | Pieta | Kamion.
Image exhibited:
- Jerzy Duda Gracz. Pro memoria. Wrocław Collection, City Museum of Wrocław 8 I - 13 II 2005, Silesian Museum in Katowice 19 II - 10 IV 2005, Copper Museum in Legnica 15 IV - 28 V 2005;
- Prelude, Gallery of the Agra-Art Auction House, Warsaw 28 I - 3 III 2023.
Reproduced painting:
- Jerzy Duda Gracz. Pro memoria. Wrocław collection (exhibition cat.), City Museum of Wrocław, Wrocław 2005, p. 71, color illustrations, cat. no. 68;
- Prelude. Wroclaw collection (exhibition catalog), Agra-Art S.A., Warsaw 2023, p. 38, color ill., cat. no. 15.
Sacred themes - or those indirectly alluding to motifs known from the history of sacred art - appeared quite often in Jerzy Duda Gracz's paintings, culminating in Golgotha of Jasna Gora (consisting of 18 paintings of the Passion of Christ), which the artist completed in the last years of his life.
The 1984 painting (Peasant Pietà) from 1996 refers to Duda Player's earlier work, Painting 1317 (Peasant Pietà from near Wieluń), painted in 1989. Instead of Christ - traditionally featured in Pieta representations - on the knees of the Mother of God, the artist placed the figure of an old woman, tormented by the sufferings of a lifetime. In the autumnal tones of the background, the landscape of the Polish countryside is visible, melancholic, nostalgic, stretched out under the cloudy clouds. However, in the representation - despite the replacement of the figure of Christ with an old woman - one does not sense iconoclastic intentions, mockery or irony. Rather, the idea of the Mother of God's empathy with the suffering of a single, ordinary person is present. Mary's face is full of tenderness and gentle sadness.
♣ to the auctioned price, in addition to other costs, will be added a fee resulting from 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)
Jerzy Duda Gracz (Częstochowa 1941 - Łagów 2004)- painter, illustrator, stage designer, educator. He received his diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Department of Graphics in Katowice in 1968. In 1976-82 he was a lecturer at the academy, then a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice. He also taught at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw (1992-2001).
His paintings are characterized by technical virtuosity and attention to detail. He practiced art in the broadly defined realist convention with dominant figure deformation and grotesque. He created a world of unmasking, using the language of journalism and allegory. He is the author of several major projects, including the "Transfiguration" plafond in the church in Toporovo (1995) and the "Golgotha of Jasna Gora" series in the Monastery of the Pauline Fathers in Czestochowa (2000/2001). The artist has had 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 participated in about 300 national exhibitions 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. Jerzy Duda Player's paintings are in the collections of the National Museums in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Wroclaw and Gdansk, the Jagiellonian University Museum in Collegium Maius in Krakow, the Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, the art collections at Jasna Gora in Czestochowa and other district and city museums, and in private collections, including those of W. Ochman and W. Fibak; abroad - in the collections of the Uffizi in Florence, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Ghent City Museum, 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, the USA, Venezuela, the UK, Italy and Hungary.
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