Description
Watercolor on pencil underdrawing, paper; 47.5 x 34 cm
Signed p.d.: Jerzy Chojnacki / Warsaw / March 10, 1979.
Framed
Jerzy CHOJNACKI
1909 Lublin - 1988 Warsaw
Initially studied at the Zakopane School of Wood Industry, and then at the State School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry in Cracow. He completed his studies with Prof. Tadeusz Breyer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1939. He participated in the Warsaw Uprising, and the photographic documentation of the fighting he made at the time later found its way to the Museum of Warsaw. After the war, he took part in the reconstruction of Warsaw's monuments to Mickiewicz and Copernicus. He created the sculpture of the Mermaid, which was located in front of the Sawa cinema (now in front of the Praga-Południe District Office building. Toward the end of his life, he was also involved in the creation of paintings
Asking price 700
Estimation 900 - 1000
◙ droit de suite
Auction 210, 05.03.2022
