Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Stefania [Editor]; Małkiewicz, Barbara [Editor]; Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie [Editor]; Gołubiew, Zofia [Editor]; Blak, Halina [Editor]: Modern Polish painting: the catalogue of collections (Band 3): Polish painting after the year 1945 (Cracow, 2005)

CHOMICZ ! CHWALCZYKOWA ! CHWASTOWSKI

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112.
The Vistula near Cracow [ca. 1947]
Oil on canvas, 50 * 44
Signed bottom right: Chomicz
Inv. no MNK H-b-1928 (317 350)
Purchased from the author in 1968


113.
Portrait of Jan Wiktor 1948
Oil on canvas, 61 * 80
Signed bottom: W Chomicz
Inv. no MNK H-b-2323 (deposit no 5957, 316 210)
Legacy of Jan Wiktor, 1973
Jan Wiktor (1890-1967) was a prose writer and publicist,
author of stories about the life of peasants, historical
novels, reports on rural topics and literary studies.


114.
Portrait of Jan Wiktor, 1948
Oil and tempera on canvas, 70 * 100
Signed bottom right: W Chomicz
Inv. no MNK Il-b-2324 (deposit no 5958,
316 211)
Legacy of Jan Wiktor, 1973

CHWALCZYKOWA see GOLKOWSKA-CHWALCZYKOWA

Andrzej CHWASTOWSKI SK
Stryj, Ukraine 1924 - Cracow 2000
In the years 1945-1950 he studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts - painting under Fryderyk
Pautsch, Zbigniew Pronaszko and Jan Swiderski, and stage designing under Karol Frycz. In 1975
he co-founded the Group "Postawy' and in 1995 - the Group of Five, active at the Gallery
"Kossakowka" in Cracow.
He practised painting, drawing and sculpture; he also occupied himself with mosaic, wall-painting
and conservation.
115.
Epitaph for Bogdan, 1986
Authorial technique, cardboard, 66 * 92
Unsigned; along the bottom edge the rhymed
inscription: Every nouj and then burning cloths
come o^f/rom you, like /rom a pitchy splinter;
ablaze, you don't knouj i/you become /ree or
ujhat is yours has to be destroyed.
Inv. no MNK II-b-3637
Gift of the author, 1999
The composition is devoted to the dramatic death of the
artist's only son. The inscription is a quote from Cyprian
Kamil Norwid (Tyrtej. Prolog, III. (W pamigtniku), 1.
131-138).