47,5 x 35,5cm - inkography, paper
Inkography based on an original painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski:
Z-6, ca.1988
oil, fiberboard, 132.5 x 97.5 cm
Signed on the back: Z-6 | BEKSIŃSKI
technique: colored inks on paper
size in frame (behind glass) : 47.5 x 35.5 cm (print : 32.8 x 27 cm)
limited edition: 10 pcs
edition no: 1
Inscription in pencil under the engraving l.: 1/10 , med.: signature of the Director of the MHS in
Sanok, p.: dry museum stamp
Inkograph made by BoSz Publishing with permission of the 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.
The Historical Museum in Sanok
is the sole heir and holder of the copyright of Zdzislaw Beksinski.
In its collection it has about 600 works of the Artist - drawings, photographs, paintings or sculptural works from the whole period of the Artist's life. The museum has organized a number of exhibitions of Beksinski's paintings from its collection in various cities in Poland, including Warsaw, Gdansk, Tychy, Pabianice.
BoSz Publishing is the only company in Poland authorized to publish albums dedicated to the work of Zdzislaw Beksinski. 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 uninterruptedly continued its mission to promote his work, publishing more books and albums devoted to various fields of art practiced by Beksinski. Over the course of 30 years, the outhouse has published a total of 23 publications dedicated to his paintings, photographs, prints and drawings.
The culmination of this mission is the release of the exclusive album "Beksinski. Paintings" in a deluxe version, which presents 530 of the artist's most important paintings on more than 500 pages.
In addition, 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 best reproduction of the artist's original paintings.
Zdzislaw Beksinski (Sanok 24 II 1929 - Warsaw 21 II 2005)
Studied from 1947 to 1952 at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology. He was a self-taught artist who achieved an unquestioned position in Polish contemporary art, confirmed by the presence of his works in prestigious exhibitions and museum collections. He was initially involved in photography, which he had been interested in since his student years, after 1956 gaining recognition as a creator of photograms with an aesthetic based on textural effects.
In 1958-1962, he created abstract paintings-reliefs of rich texture, mainly metal, which are a variation of matter painting. Toward the end of this period, he created openwork forms with figure shapes and full-bodied sculptures in metal. The next stage of his work was 1962-1974, when he devoted himself mainly to drawing. In the 1960s he drew with pen and ink figural compositions characterized by caricatured deformation of figures. From the late 1960s, he created charcoal and crayon drawings, a monochromatic variant of his parallel painting work.
In the early 1960s Zdzislaw Beksinski made literary attempts, very interesting ones, by the way. They were published by the BOSZ Publishing House in the book "Stories" and are rated very highly by, among others, Professor Bralczyk.
Since 1974 he was almost indivisibly engaged in painting. His distinctive style was based on technical perfection, accompanied by an extraordinary vision. He painted a post-disaster world, marked by the stigma of death and decay. His paintings are populated by figures and creatures with admittedly human or animal shapes, but with the characteristics of phantoms, automatons or decaying corpses. The artist did not give his paintings and drawings titles (except for ordering symbols), thus emphasizing his lack of interest in the literary side of the depictions. He himself said that when painting he completely surrenders to the vision, "photographing" it. In recent years, he has incorporated electronic image generation techniques into his artistic technique, which he used to create computer photomontages. Beksinski's art, which has been exhibited and discussed many times, arouses extreme emotions among experts and the public.
The largest, systematically replenished collection of his works in the country is in the Historical Museum in Sanok, abroad - in Paris, in the possession of Piotr Dmochowski, who has been collecting works and promoting the artist's work since 1983.
He organized Beksinski's solo exhibitions at Galerie Valmay in Paris in 1985, 1986 and 1988, among others, as well as a permanent exhibition at Dmochowski's own Galerie - Musée-galerie de Beksinski, which existed from 1989 to 1996. He also published the artist's monumental albums in 1988 and 1991.
Since October 2016, a permanent exhibition of 250 works (paintings, drawings, photographs) by Zdzislaw Beksinski from the private collection of Anna and Piotr Dmochowski has been on display at the Nowa Huta Cultural Center. Meanwhile, since June 2021, a permanent exhibition of 30 Beksinski paintings from the Dmochowskis' collection has also been presented at the Archdiocese Museum in Warsaw.
In 2020-2024, the Historical Museum in Sanok organized a number of exhibitions of Beksinski's paintings from its collection in various cities in Poland (Tychy, Lodz, Warsaw, Gdansk) often combined with multimedia shows for the public.
The MHS is the sole heir and copyright holder of Zdzislaw Beksinski's works.
