Tadeusz BRZOZOWSKI (1918-1987), Zbytnik, 1985-1987

oil, canvas; 30 x 29 cm;
Inscribed on the reverse: '87 / t. BRZOZO / -WSKI, next to inscription: top / upside
[arrow]; inscribed on the painter's loom: T.BRZOZOWSKI / "ZBYTNIK" /
30 x 29; in addition, printed paper sticker: National Museum /
in Warsaw with the annotation: cat. no. ob. 495 (in marker).
EXHIBITED:
- Tadeusz Brzozowski at friends; Exhibition on the first anniversary of his death,
BWA Zakopane, 1988;
- Tadeusz Brzozowski; Painting, Drawing, Cracow, BWA, 1992-1993;
- Permanent exhibition at Tadeusz Brzozowski gallery, [former studio of the
artist], Zakopane, until 1996;
- Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, National Museum in Warsaw, 1997.
REPRODUCED:
- Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, ed. by Anna Żakiewicz, National Museum in Warsaw, 1997.
National Museum in Warsaw, 1997, cat. no. 495, p. 198;
- Wawrzyniec Brzozowski, Tadeusz Brzozowski [1918-1987], from the series: people
times works, Edipresse Polska S.A., Warsaw, 2006.
PROVENANCE:
- Purchase from the artist's legacy.

Tadeusz Brzozowski's paintings, dating from the 1980s, are extremely
rare examples of his painterly work. Due to
difficulties associated with the lack of availability of painting tools - paints
and good quality canvases, the artist created only small-scale representations.
At the same time, since 1984, the artist's attention has focused on works made
in fabric. These intimate compositions, sometimes painted on the
commissioned by collectors, are in no way inferior to museum productions.
Titles in Tadeusz Brzozowski's paintings are an important element accompanying the
form and complementing the content of the work. In this case, toonik,
meaning jolly, witty, joker, additionally emphasizes the humor and perverse
grotesqueness that the painter wanted.