Signed on the back on canvas d.: JERZY NOWOSIELSKI 1995 IX
Authenticity of the painting consulted with Mr. Andrzej Szczepaniak.
Image described and reproduced:
- Chris Sztyber, My Second World. My Second World. Polish Painting Collection. Polish Painting Collection, p. 140 ill. in color;
- Jerzy Nowosielski, [published by] Starmach Gallery, Nowosielski Foundation, Cracow 2003, p. 435, cat. 730, color ill. [dated 1996].
The painting presented in the catalog, Nowosielski painted in September 1995 in Polany near Berest, where he vacationed several times in the late 1990s. At that time he created a whole series of paintings of Lemko Orthodox churches from the Novosadec region.
About the beginning of the 1980s. "green period" in Jerzy Nowosielski's work, Krystyna Czerni writes as follows: In the mid-1980s, the color range lightens, dilutes, bleached celadons, olive yellows, lime turquoise, marine transparent indigo appear. At the same time, the artist studies the correspondences of the Impressionists, he becomes increasingly interested in the phenomenon of light and the interdependence of colors; he praises the color sensitivity of his colleagues from a century ago [...]. "Impressionist" stage can be considered a kind of artistic experiment, a painter's adventure lasting several years. In this convention were created outdoor shots: idyllic landscapes, icons of Orthodox churches, but also small still lifes [...].
Krystyna Czerni, Jerzy Nowosielski, Great Painters, no. 105, p. 22
♣ to the price auctioned, in addition to other costs, a fee will be added, 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 Nowosielski (Krakow 1923 - Krakow 2011) began his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Krakow in 1940. In 1942 he stayed for less than a year in the St. John the Baptist Lavra near Lviv. There he studied the art of painting and the history of icons. After returning to Cracow in 1943, he re-established contacts with the circle of the future Cracow Group. After the war, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Prof. Eugeniusz Eibisch (1945-1947). At the First Exhibition of Modern Art in Cracow in 1948/49, he showed paintings maintained in the geometric abstraction trend. During the years of Socialist Realism, he did not exhibit, dealing at the time with stage design and painting of churches and orthodox churches. In 1955 in Lodz he presented his first solo exhibition, in 1956 he participated in the XXVIII Venice Biennale. From 1957 to 1962 he was a teacher at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Lodz, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he taught at the Faculty of Painting until his retirement in 1993. In the second half of the 1950s he achieved a distinctive style of nudes, landscapes and figural scenes in interiors, which he owed to his fascination with icons and his experience with sacred painting. In 1976, he took up monumental works anew, producing mural paintings, Stations of the Cross and designs for stained glass windows in the Church of Divine Providence in Wesola near Warsaw (1976-1979). The artist was widely recognized as an authority on art rooted in spiritual values.
Jerzy Nowosielski died on February 21, 2011 in Krakow, Poland.
