Cecylia WODNICKA-ZĄBKOWSKA (1926), The lofty hill

Oil, canvas, 60 x 80 cm, signed p.d.: C. Wodnicka 84, inscribed on the reverse, no. 95.

Cecylia WODNICKA-ZĄBKOWSKA (1926). Painter and graphic artist, associated with the Cracow art community. From 1948 to 1955 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of A. Marczyński, H. Rudzka-Cybisowa and W. Taranczewski. She received her diploma in 1955.She was a member of the "Circle" group, with which she exhibited in 1961-1979.She participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad and had many solo exhibitions. The artist was awarded at the exhibition of the XXVth anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland, Krakow 1969, and in the All-Polish Painting Competition, Lodz 1972, she received an award at the All-Polish Jurassic plein-air, Zawiercie 1980. In 1965-1983 she cooperated with her husband, painter Jozef Lucjan Ząbkowski, in the realization of many polychromes, mosaics, sgraffito and several sculptures in objects in southern Poland. Professor Maria Rzepinska, in an essay included in the catalog of the exhibition of the marriage of Cecilia and Józef Ząbkowski, writes about the artist's painting: "This is a very disciplined painting; a concentrated, intimate world, devoid of all flashiness. The reliability of concentrated effort is evident in these landscapes, operating with the simplest motifs and shots." ("Cecylia Wodnicka-Ząbkowska, Józef Lucjan Ząbkowski. Painting," catalog, BWA Krakow, May 1984, p. 27)