Watercolor, paper; 44 x 35 cm (w/light p-p)
Signed p.d.: Kulisiewicz 44
Provenance: from the collection of Jerzy Borejsza
Tadeusz KULISIEWICZ
1889 Kalisz - 1988 Warsaw
Studied at the School of Decorative Arts in Poznań (1922-1923), and then at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Prof. Władysław Skoczylas (1923-1927). Since 1926 he was a member of the Association of Graphic Artists "Ryt". The "Szlembark" portfolio he published in 1931, which presented the realities of life in the highland village he visited and in which he eventually settled, was an unintentional polemic against Skoczylas' idealized depictions. At the same time as printmaking, the artist created drawing series from the interwar years, which after the war and the loss of his printmaking workshop in the Warsaw Uprising, became the domain of his work. Beginning with the series "Warsaw 1945", in which he recorded views of the ruined city, in subsequent cycles (such as "India", 1956, "Mexico" I and II, 1957-1959, "Venetian Lagoon", 1958, "Brazil", 1963 and many others) he went far beyond the poetics of reportage towards a synthesis of observed phenomena. The artist worked as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1933-1939 and since 1945 (professor since 1950, retired since 1969). He was a member of numerous art organizations and the recipient of many national and international awards.
Asking price 4000
Estimate 5000 - 6000
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