Dimensions: 48 x 34 cm
Signed at the bottom: 'TŻak'
described and dated on the reverse: 'Miraculous Multiplication of Bread | 1985'.
Biography
Tadeusz Żak was born in 1925 in the village of Gruchawka near Kielce. He worked for many years as a locksmith and farmer. Since the 1970s he was engaged in sculpture. He began his artistic activity with roots-plastics, and in the 1980s he also painted pictures. He quickly gained popularity among folk art audiences, which was reflected in numerous awards and prizes. In 1977 he became a member of the Association of Folk Artists in Lublin. Until the 1990s, he participated in many group and individual exhibitions at home and abroad, including the National Museum in Kielce (1981) and the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw (1892). He was awarded the Diploma of Honor of the Minister of Culture and Art, which he received in 1984. In his works, he took up folk and religious themes by transforming familiar iconographic motifs. The artist died in 1998.
