Jacek Sienicki, INTERIOR OF THE WORKSHOP, 1987

148.0 x 98.5cm - oil, canvas, board Signed p.g.: JS 87



Provenance:

- Painting purchased in the 1990s from the artist to the Museum of European Art in Osaka, Japan.

- After the museum closed, private collection in Asia.



Reproduced painting:

- Jacek Sienicki, Browarna Gallery Lowicz 1994, cat. no. 7, p. 14, il. p.-b., list of works p. 138.

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Jacek Sienicki (Warsaw 29 II 1928 - Warsaw 14 XII 2000) studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he received his diploma in the atelier of Prof. Artur Nacht-Samborski in 1954. In 1955 he was a participant in the Exhibition of Young Visual Arts at the Warsaw Arsenal. Participation in this manifestation was not only a proper debut for the artist, but also defined for years his attitude, shared with other "Arsenalists", whose principles were: the primacy of ethics, skepticism towards passing artistic fashions, loyalty to oneself. In 1955 Sienicki began teaching at his alma mater. He passed through all academic levels, receiving the title of professor in 1981. He was the recipient of significant awards, including the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Criticism Award in 1974, the Jan Cybis Award (independent) in 1984, and the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award in 1993. From his early years, his painting oscillated between figurativism with an often dramatic existential message and a tendency toward abstraction. At the same time, the painter did not abandon a rather limited set of favorite motifs, which included horse skulls, elongated figures, dark interiors, which he played out in a similar dark-cold color range. In parallel to painting, he drew a lot, usually in charcoal, treating works in this technique as autonomous works.