DUDA-GRACZ JERZY, Sculpture according to a painting by Jerzy Duda-Gracz "To Józef Chełmoński", 1979/2021; ed. 6/8

bronze, base: marble Volacas (poch. Greece), 50 x 25 x 25 cm base dimension 54 x 35 x 3 cm, edition number placed on the back, on the sculpture

The sculpture is accompanied by a certificate confirming the intention of the sculpture, signed by Agata Duda-Gracz.

Bronze sculpture according to the iconic painting by Jerzy Duda-Gracz "To Jozef Chelmonski" from 1979.

It was created out of the need of the heart, at the request of collectors and lovers of the artist's work. It was realized in consultation and according to the instructions of the artist's daughter Agata Duda-Gracz. The sculpture is a visualization of a two-dimensional rearrangement and bears all the characteristics of the artist's work: ambivalence and contradiction, in which there is room for a certain amount of ugliness and caricature, and at the same time for lightness and humor and sentiment for seemingly unalluring, even bulky female shapes. All this accounts for the uniqueness, character and uniqueness of the artist's works.

JERZY DUDA-GRACZ - was born in 1941 in Czestochowa, died in 2004 in Lagow. He was a painter, illustrator, stage designer and educator. Graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. From 1976 to 82 he was a lecturer at the academy and then a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice. He also taught at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw (1992-2001). What distinguishes his painting is not only his excellent technique but also his attention to detail. Duda - Gracz's entire artistic output includes 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 also participated in about 300 national exhibitions and international presentations of Polish art. Among others, he represented Poland 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. His paintings are in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Wroclaw and Gdansk, the Jagiellonian University Museum in Collegium Maius in Krakow, 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 collections of the Uffizi 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. | www.jerzydudagracz.pl