12.5 x 19 cm, sheet size 30 x 40 cm, giclee / Fabriano paper 300g, acid-free, made from a special blend of lignin-free cellulose and cotton (25%), unframed work
Signed in pencil, bearing the author's foil-stamped seal, created according to a 1986 work by Andrzej Wajda, certified by Antoni Rodowicz
Selected exhibitions of the series:
Art Gallery, Warsaw, 2011;
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Cracow, 2011;
Sierakowski Manor Gallery, Sopot, 2011.
BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz, 2011
Suwałki Cultural Center, Suwałki, 2016
The work is reproduced in:
Andrzej Wajda Drawings from a Lifetime, Book World, 2011.
Andrzej Wajda Drawings, Multiart, 2019 (completed and expanded edition).
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ANDRZEJ WAJDA studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, together with one of the most important Polish painters of the 20th century. Andrzej Wróblewski. They became friends, as the director mentions in "Everything for Sale" and several documentaries, among others. The work of painting and drawing, allows to fully understand the language of his films: images, scenes, and mood. He knew about his desire to be a great artist as a teenager. In 1947 he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, but after three years he decided to become a film director, but he has been drawing all his life. When asked - why do you draw?- Wajda replied: "For two reasons. First, because what I draw is my property. It stays in my memory. By drawing I simultaneously become more aware of what moves my imagination. And in film or theater work, I use drawing because it is faster as a means of communicating with co-workers."
