Dimensions: 80 x 100 cm
signed and dated on the reverse: 'JERZY NOWOSIELSKI 1981'
on the reverse a sticker of Starmach Gallery with the description of the work
Origin:
Starmach Gallery, Cracow
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, 2015
private collection, Warsaw
Literature
cf:
Kunst uit Krakau vanaf 1947. Overzichtstent oonstelling van de Grupa Krakowska, exhibition catalog, Slot Zeist, Zeist 1990, nlb. (il.)
Jerzy Nowosielski, exhibition catalog, Starmach Gallery, Cracow 1992, p. 5 (il.)
Starmach Gallery Collection at the Municipal Art Gallery Extravagance, exhibition catalog, Municipal Art Gallery Extravagance, Sosnowiec 1992, nlb. (il.)
Jerzy Madeyski et al, Jerzy Nowosielski, Warsaw 1992, p. 61 (ill. no. 36)
Jerzy Nowosielski, exhibition catalog, Municipal Art Gallery Extravagance, Sosnowiec 1994, p. 5 (il.).
Nowosielski. Paintings and Drawings, catalog of pre-auction exhibition, Krzysztofory Gallery, Cracow 1996, cat. p. 13, nlb. (ill., cover)
Jerzy Nowosielski. Women in the Interior, exhibition catalog, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw 1998, p. 5 (ill.)
Jerzy Nowosielski, exhibition catalog, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, ed. by Jolanta Chrzanowska-Pieńkos, Warsaw 2003, p. 20 (ill.)
Jerzy Nowosielski, ed. by Piotr Cypryański, Andrzej Szczepaniak, Cracow 2003, cat. no. 613, p. 507 (ill.), 655 (exhibition photo), 726 (index)
Krystyna Czerni, Jerzy Nowosielski, Kraków 2006, p. 107 (ill. no. 121)
Biography
Began his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Cracow in 1940. Since 1944 member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Member of the Group of Young Artists and the Cracow Group. In 1976-92 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Painter, draughtsman, stage designer, creator of figural compositions, still lifes, nudes, landscapes and sacred paintings, in which he combined modern elements with influences of Byzantine art. His unique style is characterized by the use of a flat arrangement of color patches edged with a clean contour line and a synthesizing vision of everyday life. He is the author of numerous polychrome paintings in churches (including the Church of the Holy Spirit in Nowe Tychy, the church in Wesoła near Warsaw, the church in Lourdes, France) and iconostasis (including the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Cracow). The artist's works are in numerous museum collections in Poland and in private collections (USA, Canada, France, Germany). In 1993 he was awarded the Great Cultural Foundation Prize for outstanding cultural achievements.
