Signed l.d.: DG . 1109/87 .
On the reverse, on the plate, an author's sticker with details of the painting, below, a sticker of an exhibition in Moscow (Central Khudozhnik House).
The paintings on display (items 124 and 125) are smaller versions of the wings of the triptych Berlinski created in 1985 (cf. Image 1036. Berlinski and Image 1038. Berlinski, both 122 x 80 cm [in:] Duda Gracz, text: Ireneusz J. Kaminski, selection of illustrations, compilation of biography and bibliography: Agata Duda Gracz, published by Penta, Warsaw 1997, items 52 and 54, p. 116, color illustrations). Its central part - located in the collection of the A. Pushkin Museum in Moscow - is occupied by a unique scene: the artist, wearing a characteristic "cap" pulled over his eyes, holds a white flag draped on a spar against the background of the Brandenburg Gate. He is accompanied by his wife and daughter walking nearby and a veteran soldier sitting in a wheelchair. The scenes depicted on the side panels probably also take place in Berlin - on one of them you can recognize the faint silhouette of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. Their compositional and content arrangements exactly repeat the works offered in this catalog, differing from their earlier counterparts only in details, including elements of the architectural landscape, posing and details of the figures' costumes.
The twofold realization of the same theme and the presence of a personal thread binding them together makes "our" twin, but more intimate compositions, occupy an important place in the series of "aristocratic-historical" paintings created between 1985 and 1991.
♣ 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 Duda Gracz (Częstochowa 1941 - Łagów 2004)- painter, illustrator, stage designer, educator. He received his diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Department of Graphics in Katowice in 1968. In 1976-82 he was a lecturer at the academy, then a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice. He also taught at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw (1992-2001).
His paintings are characterized by technical virtuosity and attention to detail. He practiced art in the broadly defined realist convention with dominant figure deformation and grotesque. He created a world of unmasking, using the language of journalism and allegory. He is the author of several major projects, including the "Transfiguration" plafond in the church in Toporovo (1995) and the "Golgotha of Jasna Gora" series in the Monastery of the Pauline Fathers in Czestochowa (2000/2001).
The artist has had more than 180 solo exhibitions at home and abroad (including Berlin, London, Paris, Moscow, Rome, Vienna, Florence, Düsseldorf, Chicago, New Delhi, Munich, New York and others). He participated in about 300 national exhibitions and international presentations of Polish art. He represented Poland, among others, at the XLI Art Biennale in Venice in 1984, at the XX and XXI World Art Fairs in Cologne in 1986 and 1987, and at EXPO '92 in Seville.
Jerzy Duda Player's paintings are in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, Cracow, Poznan, Wroclaw and Gdansk, the Jagiellonian University Museum in Collegium Maius in Cracow, the Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, the art collection at Jasna Gora in Czestochowa and other district and city museums, and in private collections, including those of W. Ochman and W. Fibak; abroad - in the Uffizi collection in Florence, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Ghent City Museum, the "BAWAG" Foundation in Vienna and the Vatican Collection, as well as in galleries and collections in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA, Venezuela, the UK, Italy and Hungary.