150.00 x 129.50 cm - oil, canvas
signature p.d.: Jackiewicz 72
signed on the reverse on the loom's g. strip: W. JACKIEWICZ | OBRAZ IV/72, on the f. an export sticker with permit no.
Provenance: Private collection, Milan.
Exhibited and reproduced painting:
-Jackiewicz. Gdansk - Milan - Warsaw (cat. exhib.) Agra-Art Auction House Gallery, Warsaw 19 July - 31 August 2024, cat. 1, p. 10, color ill.
Władysław Jackiewicz (Podbrodzie, Vilnius, 17 II 1924, Gdansk, 30 III 2016) studied at the Faculty of Painting at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdansk (based in Sopot). He received his diploma in the atelier of Prof. Artur Nacht-Samborski in 1952. From 1959 to 1981 he worked at his alma mater, passing through all levels of his academic career from assistant to professor. In 1969-1981 he was rector. He was a member and activist of the ZPAP and, after its dissolution, of the Association of Polish Painters and Graphic Artists, in which he served as president in 1985-1989. He was a member of the National Council for Culture from 1986 to 1990, and received many national awards and decorations. He had dozens of individual exhibitions at home and abroad, and participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Exhibition of Young Visual Arts at the Arsenal, Warsaw 1955, successive editions of the National Exhibition of Young Painting, Sculpture and Graphics in Sopot in 1957, 1958, 1959, the Fourth Symposium of the Golden Grape in Zielona Gora 1969 (Grand Prix), the XLIII Art Bieale in Venice 1988. In the 1950s, he practiced painting rooted in the colorist tradition. Since 1973, he created one painting series entitled. "The Body," developing in it the theme of the nude in countless ways. He framed the shapes of figures so that the torso alone, usually devoid of anatomical details, remained in the field of composition. He painted lightened, synthetic silhouettes, using the effect of the color ground shining through a thin layer of lasering.
