Jerzy Tchórzewski (1928-1999), WITHOUT TITLE, 1988

marker/paper, 22.2 x 31.9 cm (in light passe-partout), signed and dated lower left: JTch88
good state of preservation

EXHIBITED:
- Jerzy Tchórzewski. Drawings/Drawings, Exhibition in the galleries of the Polish Auction House "Sztuka", Warsaw - Hôtel de Saxe, 33 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, Cracow - Larisch Palace, 6 Wszystkich Świętych Square, 2003.

LITERATURE:
- Jerzy Tchórzewski. Drawings/Drawings [cat. exhibition], ed. by J. Grabski, Cracow-Warsaw 2003, cat. no. 112, repr. p. 114.

"The painter's drawings have a special value. The artist, who all his life pits painting form [...], charges the canvas with responsibility, sometimes with compulsion [...] - in drawings he feels free. [...] Drawing represents the very - surprisingly often - essence of creative imagination [...]. It often happens that such drawings are bandied about by outsiders with the name of sketches. Nothing could be further from the truth. These are not sketches, but the very core of talent. [...] A painter's drawing is not an introduction to a work, it is a work in its entirety, because it holds as many layers and meanings as an oil painting. [...] Tchórzewski's drawings feature the same motifs as in his paintings: fantastic figures, landscape elements, animals, plants. [...] He always remains within the circle of 'abstract figuration' he invented [...]".
Jacek Sempoliński
(J. Sempoliński, Drawing as testimony, [in:] Jerzy Tchórzewski. Drawings/Drawings, Cracow-Warsaw 2003, pp. 13-15).