Tadeusz Brzozowski, HOMO LUDENS A LA LOBSTER SALAD..., 1986

24.0 x 30.0cm - pen ink, brush, watercolor, paper HOMO LUDENS A LA LOBSTER SALAD DEL MONICA, 1986.

signed in ink p.d.: T. B. 86., vertically along p. edge: HOMO LUDENS a la LOBSTER SALAD DEL MONICA.

signed on the reverse in ink: MICHAEL BRZOZOWSKI | "HOMO LUDENS a la LOBSTER SALAD | DEL MONICA" | 1986 | 24 x 30 cm, in the p. d. corner: Dear Mireczka A. | 1987 - very grateful | for everything Tadeusz Br.



Work mentioned in the catalog of the artist's oeuvre:

- Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, edited by Anna Żakiewicz, National Museum, Warsaw 1997, p. 272, cat. II. 1163 (as privately owned in Warsaw).

According to the same source, the drawing, along with others from a series with a title beginning with Homo ludens a la.... was exhibited at the exhibition: Tadeusz Brzozowski - Figures colored, Zapiecek Gallery, Warsaw 2 - 13 II 1987 (no cat.).

Ibid. bibliography of reviews of the exhibition, including: Some Angels, Some Devils at Zapiecek. I paint for intelligent people, Tadeusz Brzozowski tells Kurier, "Kurier Polski" 1987 no. 24, il. - photos from the exhibition.

The drawing is dedicated to the long-time manager of the Zapiecek Gallery, Miroslawa Arens.

♣ to the price auctioned, 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)

Tadeusz Brzozowski (Lviv 1918 - Rome 1987) - studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow from 1936, continuing his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule, established in place of the Academy, from 1940 to 1942. During the occupation, he was associated with Tadeusz Kantor's Underground Theater - he played in Balladina (1943) and the leading role in The Return of Odysseus (1944). During this period he was also involved in art conservation, which proved fruitful for his own painting technique in the future. In 1945 he finally graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Until 1948, he exhibited with the Group of Young Visual Artists, participating in the most important exhibitions of the young art movement, until the authorities imposed Socialist Realism as the prevailing style of painting. From 1950 to 1955, he did not participate in official artistic life, occupying himself during this time with painting church polychromes, conservation and teaching drawing at the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology (until 1954). In 1954 he moved to Zakopane, where he took up teaching work at the Kenar School. He worked there until 1969, and lived in Zakopane as director from 1959-1961 until the end of his life. During this period, in the course of independent trials and experiments, he became a virtuoso of painting technique. Color, texture, the play of glazing and values, all the "alchemy" he used in his paintings made up the unique phenomenon of abstract painting, which was capable of "telling" by its very form. In 1955, he returned to participating in exhibitions, participating in numerous shows in Poland and abroad, also holding many solo exhibitions. In 1957 he became a member of the reactivated Cracow Group. Since 1958, he co-organized the "March Salons" in Zakopane. In 1959, in Paris, he became associated with the international "Phases" movement. From 1962 to 1979 he was a teacher at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznań (from 1977 a professor), and from 1979 to 1981 a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He received many national awards and decorations and, among others, the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award (1983). Among the artist's retrospectives during his lifetime are an exhibition at the National Museum in Poznań (1974) and an exhibition of drawings at the District Museum in Radom (1986). A major posthumous exhibition was exhibited at the National Museum in Warsaw, followed by museums in Zakopane, Wroclaw and Cracow in 1997-1998, accompanied by a catalog of the artist's oeuvre in painting and drawing: Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, edited by Anna Żakiewicz, National Museum, Warsaw 1997.