Ignacy Czwartos, FLOWERS FOR ANDRZEJ WRÓBLEWSKI, 2014

200,0 x 200,0cm - oil, canvas signed on the reverse on canvas l.g.: IGNACY CZWARTOS | 2014 | YEAR | "FLOWERS FOR ANDRZEJ W..." | WRÓBLEWSKI"

On the middle strip of the stretcher bar the stamp of the collection of Grazyna and Wojtek Janik with the inventory no. in marker: 123/Czwa1.

Painting exhibited:

- Pracownia ul. Lea 44, Cracow (group exhibition), Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art "Elektrownia" in Radom, Radom 27 II - 26 IV 2015;

- Ignacy Czwartos. Polish Painter, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław 22 II - 29 IV 2019;

- Ignacy Czwartos. The painter knelt as he painted, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 23 II - 28 V 2023.



Reproduced painting:

- Studio, 44 Lea Street, Cracow (group exhibition), Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art "Elektrownia" in Radom, Radom 2015;

- "Arteon. Magazine on Art" No. 3/2019, p. 40;

- Ignacy Czwartos. The painter knelt as he painted, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2023, il. pp. 45 and 171.



In the work of Ignacy Czwartos, an important trend is portraiture, individual and collective, usually in frontal view. The artist creates a kind of painterly epitaphs, which he dedicates to artists he holds in high esteem: Stefan Gierowski, Stanisław Fijałkowski, Jerzy Nowosielski, as well as Władysław Strzemiński or, as in the case of the presented painting, Andrzej Wróblewski.

In the center of the composition, Czwartos placed Wróblewski's painting titled Fish, while he showed the author in a horizontal position, below, in a symbolically outlined coffin. In the other figures, we recognize the Krakow gallerists: Jan Michalski and Marta Tarabuła, depicted in blue hues, and, as Joanna Oporek comments, life and death, as it were, swap places here and the pessimistic message is reversed - the painting becomes an expression of hope for the permanence of what carries true value, beyond time, beyond changing conjunctures and evaluation criteria, beyond interpretations (Joanna Oporek, text accompanying the exhibition Każdy ma swoich bohaterów, Otwarta Pracownia, Krakow 2018).

♣ to the auctioned price, in addition to other costs, will be added a fee resulting from the right of the creator and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite).

Ignacy Czwartos (Kielce 1966, lives in Cracow) - painter, draughtsman, co-founder of the gallery and the Association OTWARTA PRACOWNIA (1995). He has served as president of the association since January 2006. Member of ZPAP. In addition to painting, he does press and book illustration. He lives and works in Cracow. He is a well-known illustrator, author of drawings from "Przekroj" or "Gazeta Wyborcza" magazine.

He graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan - Department of Art Education in Kalisz. A student of Jerzy Nowosielski. He received his diploma in 1993 in the studio of "alternative methods of art didactics", which was led by Tadeusz Wolanski, a student of Władysław Strzeminski and assistant of Jerzy Nowosielski.

His works have been presented in many exhibitions, individual and collective, including in Krakow, Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan, Lublin, Kielce, Zielona Gora, as well as Geneva, Erfurt. In 2023 in a solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery "Zachęta" in Warsaw.