Lot 34, Edward Dwurnik - Forty Years Old Hero - A Different Perspective. The Post-War era in Central and Eastern European Art. </br> 2 December 2021, 7 p.m. GMT+2 - Auctions

Forty Years Old Hero

Description

Executed in: 1973

Medium: acrylic and oil on canvas

Size: 146 x 114 cm

Signed and dated lower right 

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner from the artist

Location

Poland

Price realised €57,340

Estimate €31,000 - €36,000

Description

Edward Dwurnik is an outstanding Polish painter and graphic artist and one of the most recognisable personalities of Polish contemporary art. His oeuvre is considered ironic and grotesque, and includes expansive painting cycles focusing on recurrent social, political, and social motifs, produced in multiple versions, often simultaneously. His work was exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw; Bunkier Sztuki, Kracow; MOCAK, Cracow; Schaulager, Basel; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; documenta, Kassel; Sydney biennial; Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan; and many others. His work also features in many private and public collections at home and abroad.

Edward Dwurnik, an exceptional painter, has developed his own distinctive language and means of expression over the course of his career. He has used this expressive language to depict Polish society, the inhabitants of large cities, members of various social groups and, finally, the current political situation. His unrivalled talent for using caricature, irony, and critical commentary, with a large dose of warmth and affection, has provided an unparalleled blend that makes the scenes depicted truly unique. The painting Czterdziestoletni bohater is a portrait of one of the employees in the locksmith's workshop of Dwurnik's father. The artist was thirty years old when he painted this painting, and it must be understood as the artist's observation of his intimate surroundings and the people surrounding him, while at the same time expressing the artist's respect for the Polish working class and their contribution to society.

Exhibitions

Exhibited: Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Edward Dwurnik. Retrospektive, Württembergischer, 1994 Cracow (PL), National Museum Edward Dwurnik. Madness, 2013

Galeria Arkady, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Kraków 1974

Studio, Teatr Galeria, Warszawa 1975

Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Łódź 1978

Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Olsztyn 1981

Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Płock 1982

X Prezentacja Malarzy Krajów Socjalistycznych, Szczecin 1983

Galeria 72, Muzeum Chełm 1984

Galeria Nowa Brama, Słupsk 1985

Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Opole 1985/1986

Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Edward Dwurnik. Retrospektive, Württembergischer, 1994

Cracow (PL), National Museum Edward Dwurnik. Madness, 2013

"Edward Dwurnik. Wielki malarz treści" - Muzeum Regionalne w Wągrowcu, Wągrowiec 2015; Muzeum Ziemi Wałeckiej, Wałcz 2015; Muzeum Ziemi Pałuckiej, Żnin 2015; Muzeum Śremskie, Śrem 2016;

Toruń (PL), Centre of Contemporary Art (CSW ) Edward Dwurnik. Poland. Rertospective, 2021

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