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BEDNARSKI G. ! BEDNARSKI W. ! BEKSINSKI

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12.
...with a Knife 1995
Oit on canvas, 195 * 120
Unsigned
Inv. no MNK H-b-3572
Gift of the J.J. Haubenstock Foundation,
1995

Wincenty BEDNARSKI SK
Kielce 1904 - Cracow 1975
He studied at the Varsovian and Cracovian Academies of Fine Arts in the years 1947/1948.
He was a landscapist.


13.
Landscape from
the Swi^tokrzyskie Mts. 1973
Oil on canvas, 60 * 73
Signed and dated bottom right: WBednarsk:
1973r
Inv. no MNK H-b-2310 (316 164)
Purchased from the author in 1973

Zdzislaw BEKSINSKI SK
Sanok 1929
In the years 1947-1948 he studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts; next, at the Faculty of
Architecture of the Cracow Polytechnic (diploma in 1952). Initially, he occupied himself with
architecture. In 1955 he turned his interest towards painting and in 1958 he prepared his first
exhibition of paintings-reliefs. Apart from painting he practises drawing; he is also a photographer-
experimenter. As a painter he worked first in the informel convention; next, he turned to the
creation of a mysterious, gloomy, almost mystical atmosphere from the border zone between
reality and dream.
14.
Picture X, 1969
Oil on hardboard, 75.5 * 87
Unsigned; on the reverse the inscription:
BEKSINSKI 119691 75.5 * S7
Inv. no MNK II-b-2186 (314 621)
Purchased from the author in 1971