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Józef Czapski: painting drawing diaries

02.07.2019-18.10.2020 Józef Czapski: painting drawing diaries

Józef Czapski: painting, drawing, diaries from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow, as well as the collections of Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda and Andrzej Wajda, is the most complete presentation of Józef Czapski’s paintings at the Józef Czapski’s Pavilion.

It consists of the following oil paintings (the first two are from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, the others from the National Museum in Krakow): Self-portrait in a Mirror (circa 1937), The Forest Opera in Sopot (1937), Patrycja Newey in “Tosca” (1953), Altar Boys (1955), Red Café (1956), Still Life (1956), Sea Landscape (1961), Reception (1963), Mirror on a Wooden Door (1964), Old Woman (1965), Flowers in a Vase (1966), Armchair and a Frosted Glass (1975), On a Scaffolding (circa 1978), A Young Man against a Red Background (1980), Electric billiards (1981), Three Green Apples (1982), A White Vase (1985), two Landscapes (one of them monochromatic) (1987); and six watercolours from Józef Czapski’s undated notebook, given to Krystynia and Andrzej Wajda on 28 June 1984 during one of the visits at Maisons-Laffitte. The watercolours and inscription (“To my very dear Wajdas with all my gratitude and friendship Józef Czapski, 28 VI 84.”) were cut out from the notebook and framed in 1985 by Andrzej Wajda. 

Most of Czapski’s paintings that are currently found at the National Museum in Krakow come from the collection of Barbara and Richard Aeschlimann. Richard Aeschlimann, a Swiss painter, drawer and writer was Czapski’s friend and art dealer. In 1976, together with his wife Barbara, he established the Plexus Gallery in Chexbres (Switzerland), wherein the late 1970s, he started organising exhibitions of Czapski’s paintings. With the opening of the Józef Czapski’s Pavilion in 2016, the Aeschlimanns presented the National Museum in Krakow with their friend’s 12 paintings. The paintings Sea Landscape and Flowers in a Vase were given to the museum by Maria Adela Żeleńska, maiden name Bohomolec (Mysia) and Władysław Żeleński, living in Paris, who were friends with Czapski. Maria translated into French Czapski’s book The Inhumane Land (the book was published by Plon in 1949 titled Terre inhumane, with a foreword by Daniel Halévy); Władysław was a nephew of Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, a lawyer and a journalist. 

MNK The Czapski

ul. Piłsudskiego 12, 31-109 Kraków
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  • tue: 10.00-18.00
  • wednesday-sunday: 10.00-16.00