Walenty  Gabrysiak
Walenty Gabrysiak
The work of Walenty Gabrysiak, after all these years they come out of the shadows, most of his life, he spent in his own world surrounded by his art. He was an peculiar artist, so up-to-date nowadays. At one side, his paintings didn’t lose any freshness, and on the other hand, they’re very original, they’re a representation of their times, perfect exemplification of art and the philosophy of that time. Gabrysiak in one of his last intervievs said: “Everything has roots in nature, I’m only interpreting it, and the form creates the content.” - Sławomir Rogowski, Ph.D.
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Biography

Was born on 11 February 1920 in Gola in Wielkopolska. Painter and graphic artist, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1949-1954 in the studios of Professor Fryderyk Pautsch, Professor Adam Marczyński and Professor Wacław Taranczewski. He completed his diploma in 1956 under the supervision of Professor Taranczewski, in his monumental painting studio. In 1965, Walenty received a scholarship awarded by the Belgian government in École Nationale Superieure d’Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs de la Cambre. From 1954 until 1960, he collaborated with Professor Taranczewski, working on wall painting projects, e.g. sgraffito on the city hall at Wolnica Sq. in Kraków. He designed and completed a mosaic in Karczów near Opole (in cooperation with Ewa Buczyńska). In 1956, in Warsaw, he presented his first monotyping works featuring sport and prepared for the Olympic Contest. In 1958, he co-organized Modern Art Gallery in Nowa Huta. In 1970s, he headed Artistic Council of the Painting Section of the ZPAP Regional Board in Kraków. He died on 13 November 2013.

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Prizes and awards
The most important awards:
Graphic of the Month Contest - 1st prize - Kraków 1961; 2nd Graphic Art Biennale, Kraków 1962; 3rd Graphic Art Biennale, 2nd Prize, Kraków 1964; 1st degree prize of the National Exhibition „Human - Labor - Environment,” Warsaw 1971; painting award granted by the Cultural Society, Szczecin 1972; silver medal in the Kraków Team during International Saloon, Paris 1972; 2nd prize „Sport in Art,” Katowice 1976.
Collections
His works are part of the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań, Szczecin, Wrocław, Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa and Museum of Art in Łódź, the National Librery in Warsaw, Podlaskie Musuem in Białystok, Regional Museum in Bydgoszcz, Górnośląskie Museum in Bytom, Museum in Chorzów, Mikołaj Kopernik Museum in Frombork, Lublin Museum in Lublin, Museum in Majdanek, Lubuskie Region Museum in Zielona Góra and Polish Army Musuem in Warsaw as well as private and museum collections abroad in Belgium (e.g. Bibliothèque Royale Albert I in Brussels), The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, USA and Italy.
ARCHIVE WORKS

Untitled

own technique, paper
50 x 45 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Gordian image

oil, canvas
110 x 90 cm

price: 10 000 zł

Aeolian harp II, 2001

oil, canvas
100 x 80 cm

price: 9 000 zł

Untitled

oil, canvas
100 x 78 cm

price: 9 000 zł

Binary 6, 1977

own technique, paper
87 x 60.50 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Interference II, 1972

own technique, paper
61 x 49 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Phrase, 1969

own technique, paper
69.50 x 50 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Quart, 1969

own technique, paper
69.50 x 49.50 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Hunters totem, 1969

own technique, paper
69.50 x 39.50 cm

price: 2 800 zł

Paintography II, 1992

own technique, paper
81 x 61.50 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Paintography IV, 1992

own technique, paper
81 x 61.50 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Binary 5, 1977

own technique, paper
89.50 x 67 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Speculum , 1967

own technique, paper
84 x 65 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Planet III, 1967

own technique, paper
77.50 x 51.50 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Probe II , 1963

own technique
82 x 62.50 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Gate 61, 1961

own technique, paper
100 x 69.50 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Card IX, 1962

own technique, paper
78.50 x 39 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Pregnant landscape, 1969

own technique, paper
85 x 67 cm

price: 3 000 zł

Horizons' rebellion, diptych, 1976

oil, canvas
200 x 81 cm

price: 10 000 zł

Agravity III, diptych, 1976

200 x 81 cm

price: 10 000 zł

Traces, 1962

oil on canvas
125 x 90 cm

price: 15 000 zł

Ballade, 1964

oil on canvas
124 x 81 cm

price: 13 000 zł

Aggression of red , 1979

oil on canvas
115 x 90 cm

price: 12 000 zł

Carnival , 1985

oil on canvas
100 x 81 cm

price: 8 000 zł

Fugue IX, 1984

oil on canvas
115 x 90 cm

price: 10 000 zł

Étude, 1985

oil on canvas
96 x 112 cm

price: 11 000 zł

Speculum XXX, 1989

oil on canvas
145 x 115 cm

price: 15 000 zł

Speculum XXXV, 1989

oil on canvas
114 x 116 cm

price: 12 000 zł

Speculum XXXI, 1989

84 x 99 cm

price: 9 000 zł

Birth of the day , 1973

100 x 80 cm

price: 8 000 zł

A place for dreams VI, 1972

oil on canvas
115 x 90 cm

price: 10 000 zł

Speculum XVIII, 1967

oil on canvas
120 x 64 cm

price: 9 000 zł

We don't pay enough attention to ascentions, 1970

oil on canvas
125 x 90 cm

price: 12 000 zł

Timshel IV, 1993

oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm

price: 7 000 zł

Landing strip, 1995

oil on canvas
67 x 81 cm

price: 7 000 zł

Incident, 1985

olej, płótno
72 x 61 cm

price: 6 000 zł

Blood for the green , 1988

oil on canvas
115 x 90 cm

price: 11 000 zł

Speculum XXXVII, 1993

oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm

price: 9 000 zł