Dimensions: 17.5 x 23 cm
signed, dated, and inscribed on the lower right: 'T. TATARCZYK | 2008 | sketches'
Condition
Work mounted
Provenance
private collection, Warsaw
DESA Unicum, 2021
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Tomasz Tatarczyk. Untitled, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, July 1–August 12, 2011
Biography
He divided his time between Warsaw and his home near Kazimierz. Nature and the landscape were his natural habitat and inspiration. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, having previously graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology. His work is the result of keen observation of motifs selected from his surroundings and repeated many times: closed gates, roads, hills, ravines, water, and boats floating on its surface or dogs wading in it. Since 1984, he has collaborated with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw. His works have been featured in numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Foksal Gallery, the BWA Gallery in Lublin, the Awangarda Gallery in Wrocław, the State Art Gallery in Sopot, Gallery 86 in Łódź, the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, the Soho Center for Visual Arts in New York, and Galerie Ucher in Cologne. He participated in numerous group exhibitions. In 1999, he won the Grand Prix at the International Drawing Competition in Wrocław. He was a fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York; the Soros Foundation in the U.S., and the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy. Recently, he had been battling an illness and was painting less frequently. In 2009, he was honored with the 2008 Jan Cybis Award, presented by the Association of Polish Visual Artists to outstanding painters for their lifetime achievement.
