JERZY DUDA-GRACZ, 1021. Untitled (Study of a Horse), 1999

watercolor on paper, 31 x 41 cm, signed and dated lower left [two stamps] 'DUDA'; 'GRACZ'; 'J. DUDA G | 1021 / 1999'

The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist’s daughter, Agata Duda-Gracz.

The work is unframed.

JERZY DUDA-GRACZ—born in 1941 in Częstochowa, died in 2004 in Łagów. He was a painter, draftsman, set designer, and educator. He graduated from the Department of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. From 1976 to 1982, he was a lecturer at that institution and later a professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He also taught at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw (1992–2001). What sets his painting apart is not only his exceptional technical skill but also his attention to detail. Throughout his artistic career, Duda-Gracz has held over 180 solo exhibitions in Poland and abroad (including in Berlin, London, Paris, Moscow, Rome, Vienna, Florence, Düsseldorf, Chicago, New Delhi, Munich, New York, and others). He has also participated in approximately 300 nationwide exhibitions and international presentations of Polish art. He represented Poland, among other events, at the 41st Venice Biennale in 1984, at the 20th and 21st World Art Fairs in Cologne in 1986 and 1987, and at EXPO ’92 in Seville. His paintings are held in the collections of the National Museums in Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław, and Gdańsk; the Jagiellonian University Museum at Collegium Maius in Kraków; the Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, the art collection at Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, and in other regional and municipal museums, as well as in private collections, including those of W. Ochman and W. Fibak; abroad—in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Ghent City Museum, the “BAWAG” Foundation in Vienna, and the Vatican Collection, as well as in galleries and collections in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.S., Venezuela, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Hungary. | www.jerzydudagracz.pl