47.5 x 35.5cm – inkography, paper
Inkography based on an original painting by Zdzisław Beksiński:
BEZ TYTUŁU, 1980
olej, płyta pilśniowa, 87 x 73 cm
sygn. na odwrocie: BEKSIŃSKI | 1980
technique: colored inks on paper
framed dimensions (behind glass): 47.5 x 35.5 cm (print: 32.8 x 27 cm)
limited edition: 10 pcs
edition no.: 10
Inscription in pencil under the engraving l.: 10/10, middle: signature of the Director of MHS in
Sanok, p.: dry museum seal
Inkography produced by BoSz Publishing House with the consent of MHS in Sanok.
Each work is accompanied by a certificate signed by the Director of the Historical Museum in Sanok and the Director of BoSz Publishing House.
Historical Museum in Sanok
is the sole heir and holder of the copyrights of Zdzisław Beksiński.
Its collection includes around 600 works by the Artist – drawings, photographs, paintings and sculptures from the entire period of the Creator’s life. The Museum has organised a number of exhibitions of Beksiński’s paintings from its collection in various cities in Poland, including Warsaw, Gdańsk, Tychy and Pabianice.
BOSZ Publishing House
BoSz Publishing House is the only company in Poland authorized to publish albums devoted to the work of Zdzisław Beksiński. The cooperation with the artist began in the mid-1990s and resulted in the publication of four albums, which were created with the artist's direct participation. After his death, the publishing house has continued its mission of promoting his work, publishing subsequent books and albums devoted to various fields of art practiced by Beksiński. Over the course of 30 years, the publishing house has published a total of 23 publications dedicated to his painting, photography, graphics and drawings.
The culmination of this mission is the release of an exclusive album, "Beksiński. Obrazy", in a deluxe version, which presents 530 of the artist's most important paintings on over 500 pages.
Moreover, as the only producer, BoSz Publishing House has the rights to print reproductions on canvas, calendars and posters with the artist's works, thus ensuring the highest quality and the best reproduction of the artist's original paintings.
Zdzisław Beksiński (Sanok 24 February 1929 – Warsaw 21 February 2005)
He studied in the years 1947-1952 at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology. He was a self-taught artist who achieved an undisputed position in Polish contemporary art, confirmed by the presence of his works at prestigious exhibitions and in museum collections. Initially, he dealt with photography, in which he had been interested since his student years, after 1956 gaining recognition as a creator of photograms with an aesthetic based on textural effects.
In the years 1958-1962 he created abstract relief paintings with rich texture, mainly metal, which were a type of matter painting. At the end of this period, openwork forms in the shape of figures and full-plastic sculptures in metal were created. The next stage of his work was the years 1962-1974, when he devoted himself mainly to drawing. In the 1960s, he drew figurative compositions with pen and ink, distinguished by caricatural deformation of the figures. From the end of the 1960s, he created drawings in charcoal and crayons, which were a monochromatic variety of his parallel painting work.
At the beginning of the 60s, Zdzisław Beksiński made literary attempts, very interesting ones at that. They were published by Wydawnictwo BOSZ in the book "Opowiadania" and are highly rated, among others by Professor Bralczyk.
Since 1974, he has been almost exclusively occupied with painting. His characteristic style was based on technical perfection, accompanied by an extraordinary vision. He painted a world after a catastrophe, marked by the stigma of death and decay. His paintings are inhabited by figures and creatures of human or animal shapes, but with the features of phantoms, automatons or decaying corpses. The artist did not give his paintings and drawings titles (apart from the symbols that organize them), thus emphasizing his lack of interest in the literary side of representations. He himself said that when he painted, he completely surrendered to the vision, "photographed" it. In recent years, he incorporated electronic image generation techniques into his artistic workshop, which he used to create computer photomontages. Beksiński's art, frequently exhibited and discussed, arouses extreme emotions among experts and the public.
The largest, systematically updated collection of his works in Poland is located in the Historical Museum in Sanok, and abroad – in Paris, in the possession of Piotr Dmochowski, who has been collecting works and promoting the artist's oeuvre since 1983.
He organized Beksiński's solo exhibitions, among others, at the Galerie Valmay in Paris in 1985, 1986 and 1988, as well as a permanent exhibition at his own Galerie Dmochowski – Musée-galerie de Beksiński, which existed from 1989 to 1996. He also published the artist's monumental albums in 1988 and 1991.
Since October 2016, the Nowa Huta Cultural Center in Krakow has been permanently hosting an exhibition of 250 works (paintings, drawings, photographs) by Zdzisław Beksiński from the private collection of Anna and Piotr Dmochowski. Since June 2021, a permanent exhibition of 30 Beksiński paintings from the Dmochowski collection has also been presented at the Archdiocese Museum in Warsaw.
In the years 2020-2024, the Historical Museum in Sanok organized a number of exhibitions of Beksiński's paintings from its collection in various cities in Poland (Tychy, Łódź, Warsaw, Gdańsk), often combined with multimedia shows for the public.
MHS is the exclusive heir and holder of the copyright to the works of Zdzisław Beksiński.
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