Dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Jerzy Mierzejewski'
signed and described on the reverse: 'Jerzy Mierzejewski | HAARLEM - 1702- "APPLES"'.
Origin
private collection, Netherlands (purchased directly from the artist)
Veilinghuis De Eland & De Zon, Amsterdam, 2022
institutional collection, Poland
Biography
Jerzy Mierzejewski studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1937 to 1939, in the studio of Professor Mieczyslaw Kotarbinski. He received his diploma in 1956. In 1944-1946, he participated in the organization and first exhibitions of the Association of Polish Artists, and in 1954-1960 was president of the Association's painting section in Warsaw. He was also associated with the Higher School of Theater and Film in Lodz, where he served as dean of the Department of Cinematography, the Department of Directing, as well as pro-rector. He was appointed associate professor in 1976 and full professor in 1990. He spent a long time abroad, exhibited a lot in the United States, Holland, Belgium, Germany, including the exhibition "The Selective Eye" at the Grown Tower Gallery in Los Angeles (1970), where works by Picasso, Chagall, Braque were exhibited alongside J. Mierzejewski's works. In the late 1980s, the artist returned to Poland permanently. In 1997 he was the winner of the J. Cybis Award. In 2004, the National Museum in Warsaw hosted a major exhibition of the Mierzejewskis - Jerzy, his brother, Andrzej, and their father, Jacek. In 2006. Jerzy Mierzejewski received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Polish National Film School in Lodz.
