Andrzej Wajda, ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE VERSES OF ERNESTA BRILL, 1986

29.7 x 21.1cm - collage, ink, marker, paper ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE VOLUME OF VERSES "ADVENT" ERNESTA BRYLLA, 1st edition, Annex, London 1986



Illustrations in A4 sized transparent dustjackets, in black plastic cover.

On the 1st page of the cover a sticker (mpis) p.d.: Andrzej Wajda | Drawings for | "Poems by Ernest Bryll".

Portfolio contains 1 collage (title page) and 12 drawings pasted on black cardboard, card dimensions 29.7 x 21.1 cm each, last card (with signature): 29.4 x 23.7 cm

Attached to the folder with the drawings is a photocopy of the title page and list of works from the exhibition and auction for the British foundation "The Medical Aid for Poland": Catalogue "Pictures for Poland. A Unique Exhibition and Auction of Paintings, Watercolours and Graphics by distinguished Polish Artists, Jablonski Gallery [London] 1-5 September 1987, list of works nlb.: Andrzej Wajda "For Poems by Ernest Bryll" Drawings.



Cover

collage, cream chalked paper, thin pen, red marker pen



Illustrations 1-2, pp. nlb. 8-9

inscription in blue ink middle g. on left illustration: P. 8, right: p 9

Drawing according to a photograph from a demonstration on August 31, 1982 in Lubin, on the 2nd anniversary of the August Agreements of 1980. A militia attack on Lubin residents occurred during the demonstration. Three people were killed by gunfire (including Michal Adamowicz, visible in the photo, carried by his colleagues), 11 people were wounded. The photograph by K. Raczkowiak has entered the canon of photographs documenting the events of martial law in Poland.



Illustrations 3-4, pp. nlb. 26-27

inscription in blue ink p.g. on fig. left: 26, right: 27



Illustrations 5-6, pp. nlb. 44-45

inscription in blue ink on illustration left p.g.: 44, right l.g.: 45



Illustrations 7-8, pp. nlb. 54-55

inscription in blue ink on drawing left p.g.: 54, right l.g.: 55



Illustrations 9-10, pp. nlb. 66-67

inscription in b. ink l.g. on left fig: 66, right l.g.: 67

The drawing on the right, composed of several fragments of torn paper, was inspired by the banners and posters that covered the fence of the St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Zoliborz during the funeral of Father Jerzy Popieluszko on November 3, 1984. Andrzej Wajda, a resident of Zoliborz, may even have written down these slogans during the mourning ceremony, which he probably attended.



Illustrations 11-12, pp. nlb. 88-89

inscription in blue ink l.g. on left illustration: 88, right: 89,

signed in white crayon p.d.: Andrzej Wajda 5.7.1986



♣ to the price auctioned, in addition to other costs, a fee will be added, 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)

Andrzej Wajda (Suwałki 1926 - Warsaw 2016)- one of the most outstanding and well-known Polish directors. Creator of the "Polish school of filmmaking. "During the war, he attended clandestine classes in Radom and began to study painting. According to his own recollections, he spent the war in his father's brothers' house in Cracow, where he also took painting lessons for a while. After the war ended, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow from 1946 to 1950, before moving on to directing at the Film School in Lodz. In an interview he says: "I don't paint, but I draw a lot, noting in this way what surrounds me. This is the best method of remembering". In 1997 he became a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts, replacing Federico Fellini.