Dimensions: 43 x 60 cm
Signed and dated on the reverse: '1965 | J. NOWOSIELSKI'
on the reverse a sticker with a description of the work: '28 | JERZY NOWOSIELSKI | [address] | 'PEJZAŻ' 1965 | (oil, fiberboard) | 43 x 60 cm | PRICE: £430' next to a Desa Works of Antique and Modern Art Foreign Trade Enterprise Warsaw sticker with a description of the work and the date 1963.
State of preservation
Authenticity of the work consulted with Andrzej Szczepaniak
Origin
private collection, Poland
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Jerzy Nowosielski, retrospective exhibition, Zacheta Central Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Warsaw, 6.03-26.03.1963
Jerzy Nowosielski, solo exhibition, Provincial House of Culture, Zamek Club, Lublin, 1963
Jerzy Nowosielski, solo exhibition, Cassel Gallery, London 1963
Literature
Jerzy Nowosielski, catalog of individual exhibition at Cassel Gallery, London 1963, item 28, p. nlb. (index)
Biography
Began his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Cracow in 1940. Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1944. Member of the Group of Young Artists and the Cracow Group. In 1976-92 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Painter, draughtsman, stage designer, creator of figural compositions, still lifes, nudes, landscapes and sacred paintings, in which he combined modern elements with influences of Byzantine art. His unique style is characterized by the use of a flat arrangement of color patches edged with a clean contour line and a synthesizing vision of everyday life. He is the author of numerous polychrome paintings in churches (including the Church of the Holy Spirit in Nowe Tychy, the church in Wesoła near Warsaw, the church in Lourdes, France) and iconostasis (including the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Cracow). The artist's works are in numerous museum collections in Poland and in private collections (USA, Canada, France, Germany). In 1993 he was awarded the Great Cultural Foundation Prize for outstanding cultural achievements.
