Czeslaw Rzepinski (1905-1995), View of Wawel Castle

Oil on canvas, 65xc46 cm, 62x81 cm with frame, signed lower right corner

Czeslaw Rzepinski (born February 8, 1905 in Strusowo, died December 6, 1995 in Cracow) - Polish painter, educator, representative of Polish Colorism. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits and figural compositions. He exhibited in Paris at the Autumn Salon and had dozens of solo exhibitions at home and abroad. In addition to easel painting, which is the bulk of his work, he also did drawing, printmaking and wall painting. Shaped under the influence of Bonnard's painting and associated with the current of Polish Colorism, he used a light color palette, in his compositions he achieved special effects by skillfully combining cold and warm colors. His artistic career did not develop more fully until after the war, when he continued to paint with color, using the manner of combining concrete objects with almost abstract space. In the late 1940s, he was inspired by the work of Henri Matisse and Georges Braque. Later, in a colorist style, he tried to paint socialist realist paintings. In 1953, he made polychrome paintings of two tenements in Gdansk's Old Town. Czeslaw Rzepinski's paintings are on offer at auction houses. The highest price since 2007 of 15,000 zlotys was obtained from the sale in 2020 at the Ostoya Auction House in Warsaw of the painting Krakow Planty from 1946 (as of December 2021)