Jerzy Skolimowski, WINGS, 2005

87.5 x 195.0cm - acrylic, canvas Reproduced painting:

- Jerzy Skolimowski. Painting, publication issued on the occasion of the awarding of the artist with the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, III 2015, Lodz, p. 75, il color.



Jerzy Skolimowski is best known as a successful film director, screenwriter and producer. For many years, painting has also been an important part of his work. The artist greatly values this part of his own creative activity, seeing in it the possibility of spontaneous expression of artistic freedom. As he says himself: in painting I am allowed everything.

The history of his relationship with the visual arts, Skolimowski recalls as follows: I have been drawing since childhood, I started using paints as a teenager. But the turning point was a spontaneous decision to paint a large format. In 1997, Agony was created, measuring 252 x 126 centimeters, then for several years I painted the same format of dicta, until I switched to canvas, gradually increasing the size until it was almost the size of a movie screen: 3 meters by 5 meters.

Skolimowski's paintings are saturated with intense emotions and the power of the painterly gesture. In the painting on display, the artist juxtaposes the intensity of the red of the background with the white of the wings.



♣ 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 Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)

Jerzy Skolimowski (born 1938 Lodz) - director, screenwriter, actor, poet, painter. From 1953 to 57 he studied ethnography at the Department of History at Warsaw University. He made his debut as a poet in 1957 with the poem "My Rounds" published in "Nowa Kultura". He co-authored the screenplays for the films "Innocent Sorcerers" by A. Wajda (1960) and "Knife in the Water" by R. Polanski (1962). In 1963, he graduated from the Directing Department of the National Film School in Lodz, and shortly thereafter made his first film ("Rysopis",1964). From 1970 to 2006 he stayed and worked abroad: in Italy, France, Great Britain and the United States. The films created at that time enjoyed international recognition. These included "Scream" (1978), honored with the Jury Prize at the Cannes IFF, and "The Lighthouse Keeper"(1985), for which he received the Special Jury Prize at the Venice IFF. He has appeared as an actor in most of his films, as well as those of other directors (including Volker Schlöndorff's "Counterfeit," 1981, "The Martians Attack!" Tim Burton, 1996). Between 1991 and 2008 he had a break from directing - he then took up painting. He exhibited his paintings in the United States, Greece, France, Italy, Poland, among others. In 2004, the artist presented his works at the exhibition "Czarnowidzenie" in Wilanow. In 2015, he received an honorary doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. After returning to the world of film, he made critically acclaimed thrillers: "Four Nights with Anna" (2008) and "Essential Killing" (2010). Two of his youngest productions - "11 Minutes" (2015) and "IO" (2022) were Polish Oscar candidates. In 2016, he received the Honorary Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice International Film Festival.