Jerzy Nowosielski, BLACK SWIMMER, 1980s.

85,0 x 70,0 cm - oil, canvas signed on the reverse on canvas d.: Jerzy Nowosielski
On the right loom strip a sticker of the transport company
Expositions Natural Le Coultre SA of Geneva with details of the painting.

Authenticity of the painting consulted with Mr. Andrzej Szczepaniak.

About the particularly important place of female nudes in the work of Jerzy Nowosielski, wrote, among others.
Maciej Gutowski: Nudes are created constantly, throughout all the years of the artist's work. They undergo changes
in their form, but do not undergo changes in their deepest essence - they are never a description,
but always a tense emotion of extremely strong eroticism. They bring into the whole of Nowosielski's work an
an element that probably always exists, but in a hidden way - a powerful charge of sensuality. (...)
The power of eroticism here is invariably very great. (...) What then do they do in this world of values
spiritual values of Nowosielski's painting these erotic nudes? They fulfill perhaps the most important of roles - they complete the possibility of understanding the world. There is no post-sensual world without a sensual world, there is no fulfillment without expectation.
sensual, there is no fulfillment without expectation, no aspiration without desire. There is no existence without femininity, which in its essence is both the most material and the most spiritual.
(Maciej Gutowski, Nudes and Transcendence, in Jerzy Nowosielski. Women in the Interior, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, May-June 1998, p. 7)

The painting presented in our auction is included in Jerzy Nowosielski's "black nudes" series, showing many similarities (including composition, framing of the figure with the cut of the
of the woman's headgear by the upper edge of the painting, the placement of the nude in the beach scene, as well as the dark coloring of the female figure and the light coloring of her headgear) with such paintings as Black Nude
from 1987 and Nude on the Beach from 1982.Undoubtedly, Black Swimmers are among the most sought-after and valued by collectors

♣ a fee will be added to the auctioned price in addition to other costs, resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)

Jerzy Nowosielski (Krakow 1923 - Krakow 2011) began his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Krakow in 1940. In 1942 he stayed for less than a year in the St. John the Baptist Lavra near Lviv. There he studied the art of painting and the history of icons. After returning to Cracow in 1943, he re-established contacts with the circle of the future Cracow Group. After the war, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Prof. Eugeniusz Eibisch (1945-1947). At the First Exhibition of Modern Art in Cracow in 1948/49, he showed paintings maintained in the trend of geometric abstraction. During the years of Socialist Realism, he did not exhibit, dealing at the time with stage design and painting churches and orthodox churches. In 1955 in Lodz he presented his first solo exhibition, in 1956 he participated in the XXVIII Venice Biennale. From 1957 to 1962 he was a teacher at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Lodz, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he taught at the Faculty of Painting until his retirement in 1993. In the second half of the 1950s he achieved a distinctive style of nudes, landscapes and figural scenes in interiors, which he owed to his fascination with icons and his experience with sacred painting. In 1976, he took up monumental works anew, producing mural paintings, Stations of the Cross and designs for stained glass windows at the Church of Divine Providence in Wesola near Warsaw (1976-1979). The artist was widely recognized as an authority on art rooted in spiritual values.

Jerzy Nowosielski died on February 21, 2011 in Krakow, Poland.