The Jester

EXHIBITED: - Tadeusz Brzozowski among Friends; Exhibition on the first anniversary of his death, BWA Zakopane, 1988; - Tadeusz Brzozowski; Painting, Drawing, Kraków, BWA, 1992-1993; - Permanent display at the Tadeusz Brzozowski gallery, [the artist's former studio], Zakopane, until 1996; - Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, National Museum in Warsaw, 1997. REPRODUCED: - Tadeusz Brzozowski 1918-1987, ed. Anna Żakiewicz, 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: - Purchased from the artist's estate. Tadeusz Brzozowski's paintings from the 1980s are extremely rare examples of his painterly work. Owing to the difficulties connected with the unavailability of painting tools - paints and good-quality canvases - the artist created only small representations. At the same time, from 1984 the artist's attention focused on works made in textile. These intimate compositions, sometimes painted to the commission of collectors, are in no way inferior to museum realisations. Titles in Tadeusz Brzozowski's paintings are an important element accompanying the form and complementing the content of the work. In this case zbytnik, that is, a joker, a wag, a jester, additionally emphasises the humour and the perverse grotesqueness that the painter cared about.