Dimensions: 110 x 170 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: 'Zbylut 98'.
Signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Zbylut GRZYWACZ | "THE GIRLS OF TORSTEN RENQVIST | 1998 | 110 x 170 cm'.
Exhibited
Zbylut Grzywacz. Painting, Gallery on Koziniec, Zakopane, February 2000.
Exhibition of paintings by Zbylut Grzywacz. Paintings from the years 1957-2000, "Zbylut Gallery," Krakow, June 2000-July 2005
Zbylut Grzywacz. Paintings and drawings, "Format" Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cracow, December 2000.
Zbylut Grzywacz. Paintings and drawings 1958-2001, Wirydarz Art Gallery, Lublin, April-May 2001.
Zbylut Grzywacz 1939-2004, first posthumous retrospective, National Museum in Cracow, March - June 2009
Municipal Gallery of Art in Lodz, Center for Art Propaganda, June - August 2009.
Scenes by Zbylut Grzywacz. Paintings and drawings, Plock Art Gallery, September - October 2014
Literature
Zbylut Grzywacz. Paintings and drawings 1958-2001, exhibition folder at Wirydarz Art Gallery, Lublin, 2001.
Zbylut Grzywacz 1939-2004, exhibition catalog, [eds.] Joanna Boniecka, Jacek Waltoś, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow 2008, cat. no. 402, pp. 256 (il.), 355
Scenes by Zbylut Grzywacz. Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Joanna Boniecka, Plock Art Gallery, 2014
Biography
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1963 in the studio of E. Krcha. From 1972 he worked at the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1991 became a professor. In 1966, together with M. Bieniasz, J. Waltos and L. Sobocki of the "Wprost" group. His early work was influenced by F. Bacon with his characteristic deformations and exaggerations. Later he used more realistic means of expression. In the early 1980s, he created the series "Wisnica Retreat" and "Spring 1982," in which he referred to martial law, depicting still lifes with pieces of bread and chains. Later he returned to the theme of the female nude, painting bodies stigmatized with scars, scars. Since 1989, he painted nudes, but already in the convention of affirmation of life and beauty. Together with his wife Maria, he ran the Este Gallery of Curiosities in Cracow.
