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2 Wojciech Jędrzejewski s 4 December 2017, 20:30 Warsaw time Hemisphere room floor-1 InterContinental Hotel ul. Emilii Plater Warszawa Pre-auction viewing 30/11 4/12/ :00-20:00 Exhibition location Hemisphere room floor-1 InterContinental Hotel ul. Emilii Plater Warszawa LIBRA Auction House ul. Emilii Plater 49, XIII p Warszawa info@artlibra.pl

3 Chris Niedenthal 9 Warsaw, Apocalipsis now, Anita Andrzejewska 10 from series: Benares 3. Zygmunt Rytka 11 Transient Object 4. Tomasz Gudzowaty 12 The First Lesson of Killing 5. Andrzej Świetlik 13 Weekend with Hieronymus 6. Richard Avedon Made in France 7. Wojciech Prażmowski Photograph for Matsuda 8. Anita Andrzejewska 20 from series: Benares 9. Frank Boots 21 5 mei iggu, nr Jan Spałwan 22 Świętokrzyskie Landscape 11. Kuba Atys 23 Olympic Games, Foils, Sydney Franciszek Stobik Birches II 13. Peter Lindbergh Christy Turlinghton 14. Frank Boots 28 5 mu 1994, nr Paweł Pierściński 29 Chemar 16. Maciej Jędrzejewski 30 Hands, Barbara Skarga Leszek Kołakowski 17. Wiktor Wołkow 31 Landscape 18. Krzysztof Gierałtowski Tadeusz Kantor, painter 19. Henri Cartier-Bresson Brasserie Lipp, Paris 20. Tadeusz Wański To go on travel 21. Marek Wajda /08, from series: Marrakech 22. Dariusz Dyr 40 Venus Agnieszka Krzysztof Gierałtowski 41 Nina Andrycz, actress 24. Tadeusz Wański 42 Under the Burden of the Sky 25. Wiktor Wołkow 43 Landscape 26. Jeanloup Sieff Guermantes 27. Tomasz Gudzowaty 46 Zebras at a Watering Place 28. Andrzej Świetlik 47 Strongwomen 29. Paweł Pierściński 48 A Portrait of Kieleckie Region 30. Chris Niedenthal 49 Constanza 31. Jan Spałwan 50 Cornfield 32. Wojciech Prażmowski 51 Passing Away 33. Jakub Pajewski 52 Julia 34. Franciszek Stobik 53 Children 35. Marek Wajda /07, from series: Marrakech 36. Zygmunt Rytka 55 from series: Contact Dear Sir, Dear Madam, We, Libra Auction House, hereby present a unique set of photographs form Wojciech Jędrzejewski s collection, which represents values similar to our mission: to combine artistic and aesthetic value with high collector and investment value of the proposed items. In this directory, you can find examples of high profile items appearing on the Polish market for the first time, produced by artists of key importance for the world history of photography, including Peter Lindbergh, Richard Avedon, or Henri Cartier-Bresson. Next to the artists mentioned above, we also present the greatest names in Polish photography, represented by such works as the iconic productions by Paweł Pierściński, Zygmunt Rytka, or Chris Niedenthal. The set of works from Wojciech Jędrzejewski s collection which is hereby put on auction presents a rich and diverse cross-section of the techniques and aesthetic patterns of major relevance for the international history of photography for the ever growing market of collector photography. The proposed items have been carefully gathered and selected by Wojciech Jędrzejewski, one of the most important photography experts and collectors in Poland. This choice is an example of conscious and consistent building of a private collection, in which every photograph has its own unique history. Not only the artists names matters but also the carefully documented origin of prints, as a warranty of uniqueness, and the continuous conservator protection, careful storage and artistic framing of the images so that they are durable and a safe investment. A great majority of the photographs have been edited and signed by their respective authors, and the prints are qualified as vintage prints. I truly believe that photographs from Wojciech Jędrzejewski s collection are the perfect investment for their buyers, and perhaps an interesting idea for a Christmas gift in the upcoming season, or an attractive item that will add aesthetic valour to your home or office. You are hereby kindly invited to visit the pre-auction viewing and the auction itself on 4 December Ewa Szok President of the Management Board Libra Auction House

4 4 5 Dear Sir, Dear Madam, Artemis Art Gallery, Krakow, 6 December 2002, opening of My Favourite Photographs exhibition. As seen from the left: Marek Wajda, Wojciech Prażmowski, Paweł Pierściński, Wojciech Jędrzejewski, Sławoj Dubiel, Zygmunt Rytka, Marek Szyryk, Krzysztof Gierałtowski, Anita Andrzejewska, Jan Spałwan, Jakub Pajewski. It s been fifteen years since the works from my private collection of photographs were shown at the Artemis Art Gallery in Krakow, entitled My Favourite Photographs. It was the first exhibition of a private collection of fine-art photographs in Poland. It was highly popular with the public and the media. See the event coverage at The exhibition presented diverse genres of photography and various authors, both those exclusive for Polish photography, those most famous worldwide, and those who were then taking their first steps on the collector market. Each of my photographs to be auctioned on 4 December is accompanied by a different story of how it came to be included in my collection. Sometimes I was searching for certain photos for years and had to travel abroad, or to Kielce in winter, at other times I had to contact an offshore art gallery via the Internet, which was not so very easy 15 years ago. Searching for photographs and reaching their authors can be the most exciting moments in collecting fine arts, which make it worth the effort, as they involve a great satisfaction. I have been building my collection consistently throughout the past years, adding more and more consecutive works. In the meantime, I was trying to use the knowledge I gathered about collecting photography through publications and speeches I made to promote this extremely thrilling field. I am truly satisfied to notice a major progress that has occurred after all those years on the collector photography market in Poland, and I am well aware I am one of the contributors to this progress. Obviously, I am not claiming that the market is fully mature now, but its advancement is truly pronounced, and the results are encouraging. New photography collectors have appeared, and market s have been set for the works of many Polish artists. Photography auctions have become a regular item in the proposals of auction houses, thus leading to the natural formation of competitive mechanisms. Therefore, consequently pursuing growth of the collector photography market in Poland, I decided to accept the invitation from LIBRA Auction House and to put selected photographs from my first exhibition of 2002 to auction. Fifteen years ago, I wrote in the exhibition directory for My Favourite Photographs that the exhibition would be an encouragement for people to collect photos and at the same time enliven the circles of authors and collectors. I am thus resuming my attempts after all those years, hoping to experience the satisfaction with creating the collector photography market in Poland again. I will be really pleased to find the works from my collections coming to your possession being able to give you a lot of joy and positive aesthetic experience. Even more pleasant would it be for me to learn that these purchases could lay the foundation for your own private photo collection, or add to an existing collection of artwork or photography. The vast majority of the items to be auctions are signed, edited and produced manually by their respective authors. As such, they are identified as vintage print. Photographs in this category are most sought by collectors, museums, and national fine art collections. This is because they meet the durability criteria set for museums, and therefore also for collectors. I bought most of the works to be auctioned on 4 December from their original authors, which is my guarantee of authenticity. Most of them are also exquisitely framed by Renes, a reputable professional artwork framing workshop. They are fitted with acid-free passe-partout and UV filter glass to protect them from sunlight. This type of framing is not only pleasing to the eye but, more importantly, it offers permanent protection of the photographs. You are kindly invited to buy, and to experience a lot of emotion while auctioneering. Wojciech Jędrzejewski Post scriptum: An extraordinarily valuable aspect is the fact that, owing to Libra Auction House, 3% of the auction revenues will be given to charity.

5 Lista fundacji, na które mogą Państwo przekazać 3% ceny sprzedaży, zgodnie z zapisem regulaminu aukcji XI. pkt 3. Fundacja Gessel dla Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie Wspiera działania Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie w zakresie poszerzania, przechowywania, udostępniania i promocji zbiorów polskiej sztuki współczesnej. Fundacja realizuje swoją misję poprzez dokonywanie zakupów dzieł polskiej sztuki nowoczesnej i współczesnej, które są przeznaczone do kolekcji Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie. IVY Poland Fundacja Ivy Poland promuje i wspiera edukację Polaków na najlepszych amerykańskich i europejskich uniwersytetach m.in. poprzez programy stypendialne, oraz zrzesza polskich absolwentów najlepszych światowych uczelni i filantropów zainteresowanych wspieraniem Polaków w edukacji na najwyższym poziomie i świadczy doradztwo edukacyjne. Synapsis Misją Fundacji SYNAPSIS jest niesienie profesjonalnej pomocy dzieciom i dorosłym osobom z autyzmem i ich rodzinom oraz wypracowywanie systemowych rozwiązań, które poprawią jakość ich życia. Fundacja Wiewiórki Julii Fundacja Wiewiórki Julii to pierwsza tego rodzaju organizacja której celem jest zapewnienie kompleksowej opieki stomatologicznej dzieciom oraz młodzieży z wadami rozwojowymi, z placówek socjalnych osobom starszym i niepełnosprawnym. Kabbalah Center Poland Międzynarodowa organizacja upowszechniająca mądrość Kabbalah. Jej celem jest dawanie ludziom wiedzy oraz narzędzi, pozwalających ulepszyć życie i usunąć chaos panujący na świecie. Towarzystwo Pomocy im. św. Brata Alberta Prowadzi schroniska, noclegownie, domy stałego pobytu, łaźnie, świetlice, kuchnie dla ubogich. Przeciwdziała i zapobiega bezdomności, promuje to, co jest bliskie idei albertyńskiej. Fundacja im. Grzegorza Góraka Fundacja wspiera rozwój młodych osób w zakresie ich przedsiębiorczości oraz zachęca ich do stawiania pierwszych kroków w biznesie; promuje idee patriotyzmu gospodarczego i CSR. Krzewi takie wartości jak etyka, uczciwość i konsekwencja w dążeniu do celu. Schronisko dla bezdomnych zwierząt w Korabiewicach Schronisko jest pod opieką Fundacji Viva! Od 2012 r. Fundacja Viva! Akcja Dla Zwierząt zajmuje się walką o poprawienie losu zwierząt. Fundacja One Day Celem fundacji jest działalność społeczna w zakresie pomocy doraźnej, w edukacji i pomocy w usamodzielnianiu się dzieciom po wyjściu z domu dziecka izinnych placówek opiekuńczych.

6 9 / 1950 / London Chris Niedenthal Warsaw, Apocalipsis now, 1981/2007 Chris Niedenthal 34,5 cm x 47,5 cm signature, edition 01/30 vintage print, print on paper Kodak Professional Endura Paper on the reverse: authentic inscription by the author This photograph is very important for Poland s contemporary history. It was taken on the first day of Martial Law, on 13 December The roll of film with this frame was carried by random travellers by train from Warsaw to Berlin, where it was picked up by a representative of Newsweek. In terms of collector value, the 01/30 edition of this photograph is highly valuable. 1 At the reverse, there is the author s authentic inscription dedication for the collection owner: For the collection of Wojciech Jędrzejewski, Photographed on Kodak color slide film 13 th. December 1981, Color print made in Warsaw on 10 th. December Warsaw, Apocalipse Now 1981 Chris Niedenthal Warsaw, 13/12/ EUR estimate: EUR An artist with extraordinary talent and a unique sense of selecting certain essential topics, historical moments or places that should be recorded for the next generations to see. A highly professional set of skills. During the period of Martial Law, he would send his photographs captured in Poland, without viewing them, to the international editors he was working with. He would only see them many years later. This story is a proof of the artist s extraordinary virtuosity in the field of photography. He has taken thousands of exquisite photographs in Poland since the early 1970s when he came here from England to live until the present day. He has authored some photos accompanying the most important events in Poland s contemporary history, led by the photograph offered at this auction: Warsaw, Apocalipsis now This photograph travelled the world around owing to the publication in Newsweek where Chris Niedenthal worked as press photographer. Chris Niedenthal is among the most influential personalities in contemporary Polish culture and in the circle of Polish photographers.

7 10 11 / 1970 / Toruń Anita Andrzejewska from series: Benares, 2002 Transient Object, 1989 / 1947 / Warsaw Zygmunt Rytka 2 25 cm x 38 cm signature, edition 1/20 on the reverse: authentic inscription made by the author in pencil: For Wojtek, for his collection The author s prints offered at this auction were developed by herself in a darkroom, as a guarantee of superior collector technique and remarkable aesthetic experience. 30 cm x 40 cm signature author s fingerprint on the reverse of the photograph Photographs by Zygmunt Rytka are among the most sought items by art collectors. They are very attractive in terms of their artistic value and will enrich any art collection with best value work EUR estimate: EUR The artist graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She creates photography and industrial design. She is committed to artistic and community projects connecting Europe with Asia. She produces exquisite photographic records of her artistic travel to such places as India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Australia or the United States. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers and of Grupa 13 artistic society. She teaches photography at Krakow University of Technology. Gets involved in numerous projects to promote photography. She creates black and white artistic photography. Her shoots are remarkably endearing, emotional visions of the surrounding reality, as well as sophisticated, arty portraits and landscapes taken during the artist s travels to faraway lands. The artist took part in numerous group and individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad. The cities where her works were presented include: Berlin, Frankfurt, Bremen, Bratislava, Athens, Niort, Lille, Budapest, Tehran, Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice and Cieszyn EUR estimate: EUR An interdisciplinary artist following the neo-avantgarde tradition who uses photography and creates installations. He works with photographic and video techniques. For many years, he has been capturing rocks in the Białka river of the Tatra Mountains, a motif of his series entitled Supplementary Images and Continuity of the Infinite. As the author perceives rocks as a symbol of eternity and infiniteness of nature, he puts them in movement in his installations, thus questioning the stability they are typically associated with. He also made this point in his Dynamic Objects. Although they are not moving in photographs, the artist notes that they are capable of activating our imagination and creating a new kind of intellectual space. Works by Zygmunt Rytka are held in the collections of the National Museum in Wrocław; Studio Art Gallery in Warsaw; Warmia and Masuria Museum in Olsztyn; Museum of Fine Arts in Łódź; Museum of the History of Photography in Krakow; as well as Polish and foreign private collections. He is one of the founders of In Situ Foundation for Contemporary Art.

8 12 13 / 1971 / Warsaw Tomasz Gudzowaty / 1951 / Złotów The First Lesson of Killing, 1999 Weekend with Hieronymus, 1997/2002 Łódź Kaliska/Andrzej Świetlik 4 27 cm x 39 cm signature The photograph offered at this auction received the 1 st prize at World Press Photo cm x 46 cm signature, edition 7/25 photograph framed in passe-partout and affixed to cardboard with adhesive A pastiche of a famous painting by Hieronymus Bosch. The print of this photograph is one of the last ones produced by the author manually in a darkroom, which determines its exquisite collector value. With its unique quality and extraordinary technique to derive whiteness, this shoot becomes extremely attractive EUR estimate: EUR Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Warsaw University. Member of the European Press Agency and the Association of Polish Art Photographers. Winner of numerous prestigious prizes and honours. In 1999, he won the 1st prize at World Press Photo, category: Nature and Environment, for his photo entitled The First Lesson of Killing. He received the 2nd prize in the same category the following year. He took part in numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad. A series of works by Tomasz Gudzowaty entitled Following The Rain was shown at an exhibition in Zachęta Art Gallery, Warsaw. This author s photographs are published by Polish and foreign press. Tomasz Gudzowaty dedicated a series of photographs taken at XI Paralympic Games, Sydney 2000, to athletes with disabilities. Together with Robert Bogusławski, the author created a well known cycle of photographs entitled The Shaolin Monastery. During , he was the operator of Yours Gallery in Warsaw. In 2011, he received an award from the Polish Society of Authors and Composers ZAiKS in visual arts for his accomplishments in photography EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent Polish author of portraits, performer, co-founder and author of numerous productions by Łódź Kaliska avant-garde art group. One of the assumptions of the group founders is the new pop, or to make art more beautiful. He got his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Media Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He teaches photography at universities, including the Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts and the Warsaw School of Information Technology, faculty: Graphics. Author of thousands of photographs that were printed on covers of periodicals, records, posters, billboards, photo albums, marketing publications, and used in advertising campaigns. Together with Łódź Kaliska artists, he took part in more than 350 individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including such cities as: Marseilles, Tokyo, Beijing, Vienna, Cologne, Budapest, and many Polish cities. His works are held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Łódź, in the National Museums in Poznań, Wrocław and Kielce, the Silesian Museum in Katowice, collections of Zachęta Art Gallery in Szczecin, Olsztyn and Łódź, and in private art collections. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers. Author of the following exhibitions: Luminous Portraits; Slightly Quieter; Like Children and Nadziei 5; Fairy Tales; The Blue Skylight; Artists Were Trying to Come Gladly. The portraits he created of Polish rock music stars, such as Grzegorz Ciechowski Obywatel G.C., who worked with the author for 13 years, of Kora Jackowska or Justyna Steczkowska are unrivalled models of photographs in this genre.

9 15 Made in France / / USA Richard Avedon Suzy Parker and Gardner McKay, 1956/2001 The Richard Avedon Foundation Richard Avedon A collector photo album entitled Made in France, 56 pages, published by one of the most famous photo galleries worldwide the Fraenkel Gallery of San Francisco. Album dimensions: 30.5 cm 37.5 cm. The album is framed in a wooden case and edited manually by Richard Avedon - 94/ cm x 24 cm author's signature on the reverse of the photograph, edition 94/100 life time print, silver gelatin print An extreme rarity for collectors on the photography market, and a very attractive fine art item. 6A Available for sale at the auction: a set consisting of: 1. Collector photo album entitled Made in France, 56 pages. 2. Print of collector photograph entitled Suzy Parker and Gardner McKay, August 1956/2001, 19 cm x 24 cm. cena wywoławcza zestawu EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent and most popular photographers in history. His works are held in the most noteworthy contemporary art collections and sold for rocketing s. He was the greatest star of the world of photography. He became famous mainly owing to his fashion shoots for Harper s Baazar and Voque, as well as his celebrity portraits. He published many photo albums. His career was so spectacular and so American that a movie was made on the basis of his biography, a thirty-five-year-old photographer at that time, entitled Funny Face, starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. For over sixty years, he was an unwearied reporter of political, social and cultural events. He elevated fashion photography to a level of art. He freed his models from sophisticated poses and presented the whole range of their emotions instead. The portraits he created are appreciated worldwide and present surprising images of famous or anonymous people. He had numerous important exhibitions worldwide, he authored many albums and books. He received a honorary degree from such schools as The Royal College of Art of London.

10 17 Richard Avedon Made in France Richard Avedon / / USA 6B Copy of a collector photo print, edited manually with number 94/100 and signed by Richard Avedon The collector photo album entitled Made in France presents the shoots made by R. Avedon in Paris during the 1950s for the legendary Harper s Baazar. Among these images, there is one of the most famous fashion photograph in history, namely Dovima with elephants, Cirque d Hiver, 1955, produced for a Dior dress. A special trait of this publication is the fact that the master s photos are reproduced in their exact original sizes and contain his authentic descriptions for Andre Gremola printing house, as a presentation of technique of one of the most remarkable photographers worldwide.

11 19 Photograph for Matsuda, 1991/2002 Wojciech Prażmowski Wojciech Prażmowski / 1949 / Częstochowa 32 cm x 38,5 cm signature, edition 12/35 on the reverse: authentic inscription by the author in pencil W. Prażmowski s photographs auctioned here are the most characteristic of that remarkable author s work. In addition to their artistic value, they are also characterized by exquisite development the prints were developed manually in a darkroom by the author. These photographs will add prestige to every collection and to any kind of space where they will be exposed. 7 On the reverse of the photograph, there is the author s authentic inscription in pencil: Matsuda Collection, 1991, Cordoba For Wojtek s collection EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent Polish photographers. Full professor in the field of video arts, teaches photography at the Lodz Film School and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He has been involved in photography since 1968, the year of his debut at the National Exhibition of Fine Art Photography in Częstochowa. He graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography in Brno and the Film School in Lodz. He took part in more than 300 photography exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers since He represents the creation photography genre. Author of photo-objects. He created a series of sculpture installations dedicated to famous artists in the world of culture, including Andrzej Wajda, Gunter Grass, Akira Kurosawa. They were presented at the Centre of Contemporary Art Collection, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. In 1999 W. Prażmowski created a photo session in Sevilla for Mitsuhiro Matsuda, a Japanese fashion creator, with the participation of Tara, a top model at the time and an Abyssinian princess. His works from this cycle are enchanting in terms of composition, scenery, light, and printing technique. W. Prażmowski s photographs can be found in the following collections, among others: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Strieped House Museum of Art, Tokyo; Lauder Foundation, New York; Museet for Fotokunst, Odessa; Musee de l Elusee, Lausanne; Museum of Fine Arts, Lodz; Centre for Contemporary Art CSW Ujazdowski Castle; National Museum, Wrocław; Silesian Museum, Katowice. Bruno Trompier was hired by La Maison de la Photographie to produce a biography film about W. Prażmowski.

12 20 21 / 1970 / Toruń Anita Andrzejewska from series: Benares, mei iggu, nr. 2, 1994 / 1949 / Netherlands Frank Boots on the reverse: authentic inscription made by the author in pencil: For Wojtek, for his collection herself in a darkroom, as a guarantee of superior collector technique and remarkable aesthetic experience. 25 cm x 38 cm 29 cm x 29 cm 8 signature, edition 1/20 signature 9 The author s prints offered at this auction were developed by Frank Boots s works attract attention with the beauty of female nude and the exquisite print development technique. Highly attractive in terms of their visual quality. 500 EUR estimate: EUR The artist graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She creates photography and industrial design. She is committed to artistic and community projects connecting Europe with Asia. She produces exquisite photographic records of her artistic travel to such places as India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Australia or the United States. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers and of Grupa 13 artistic society. She teaches photography at Krakow University of Technology. Gets involved in numerous projects to promote photography. She creates black and white artistic photography. Her shoots are remarkably endearing, emotional visions of the surrounding reality, as well as sophisticated, arty portraits and landscapes taken during the artist s travels to faraway lands. The artist took part in numerous group and individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad. The cities where her works were presented include: Berlin, Frankfurt, Bremen, Bratislava, Athens, Niort, Lille, Budapest, Tehran, Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice and Cieszyn. 500 EUR estimate: EUR The human being is the key object of this author s artistic interest. It can be a portrait, nude, fashion, man in city space. A meeting between the artist and the model is always an impulse for the creation of every photograph by that author. According to Frank Boots, these meetings are decisive, each of them having a unique value and significance. The artist never captures images unexpectedly, never takes his models by surprise - he would rather search for people who enjoy posing. He focuses on working with women. In his portraits, he shows a person s character and mood, their aura invisible to the naked eye. He is a member of numerous international artist societies, a highly popular master of fine art photography. F. Boots s works can be found in many private and museum collections. Prints developed by the author are characterized by exquisite collector quality. An exhibition of Frank Boots s photographs took place in Warsaw in 2003, at the Julia-Juice&Art gallery.

13 22 23 / / Latvia Jan Spałwan Świętokrzyskie Landscape, late 1970s Olympic Games, Foils, Sydney 2000, 2000/2002 / 1964 / Warsaw Kuba Atys cm x 49 cm I personally bought the photos offered at the auction from Jan Spałwan at his house in Kielce. Like many other photographers of that generation, the author would not always edit or sign his photos. He did not care about those details which he considered unnecessary. 39,5 cm x 60 cm signature on the reverse, edition 1/10 vintage print, collector print, Lambda Print technique Sports photographs are extremely rare on the Polish market of collector photography EUR estimate: EUR He has been a photographer since 1945 while at the same time operating a photo lab in Kielce, together with his wife. He took up fine art photography in Member of Grupa 10x10 art group. Founder of Spałwaówka, an Author s Photo Gallery. The primary motif of his work is the landscape of Kieleckie region, which he was capturing out of his inner need to contact nature. His photos represent the uniqueness, beauty and emotion of this land. His Cornfield, Harvest or Ploughed Earth have permanently made their way to the canon of Polish landscape photography. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, AFIAP. His works were shown at 500 individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including the United States and Japan. He took part in the artistic activities of the Kielce Landscape School. Together with the works of other members of that art group, his photographs were presented in exhibition series entitled Portrait of the Earth, Wild Fir Forest, Small Landscape Forms, Kielce Włoszczowa, Kielce Style Land. He received multiple prizes, medals and diplomas for his work, also from the Minister of Culture and Art. 500 EUR estimate: EUR He is considered to be the most prominent sports photographer in Poland. His career as press photographer started in the 1980s from images of demonstrations for the underground press. He has been working with Gazeta Wyborcza since the newspaper was opened, since 1991 as its official photographer. His involvement in sports topics was by accident, but he has special understanding of this area as a graduate of the University of Physical Education in Warsaw. He captures athletes competing at Olympic Games, World and European Championships, and many other events in various sports disciplines. His photos show the true spirit of sports in the traditional meaning of the word, with the expression, emotion and effort of sports competition, the athletes strain. The works by Kuba Atys not only represent the magic of photography but also - or perhaps first of all - the magic of sport. Winner of Grand Press Photo 2007 and 2011, categories: News and Sport.

14 25 / Franciszek Stobik Birches II, 1954 Franciszek Stobik 29 cm x 39 cm Buying photographs by Franciszek Stobik, an artist who has not yet gained a broader recognition despite his exquisite skill will probably be an attractive investment in an author who is doomed to gain popularity soon, and his works are going to become more valuable. 12 On the reverse of the photograph, there is a stamp: Association of Polish Art Photographers, Artistic Committee, 20 November 1954, with the author s seal and handwritten title of the work Birches II. 375 EUR estimate: EUR He started taking photos when he was 12 years of age. Before World War II, he was a member of the Silesian Society of Photography Enthusiasts. He set up and presided over the Silesian Region of the Association of Polish Art Photographers in Katowice. Mining has become the object of F. Stobik s artistic search. Many of the author s works show such typical items of 1950s and 1960s Silesia as old mines, wood yards, or slag heaps. The artist took part in numerous photo exhibitions where he received awards and honours. In 1952, he received a honorary diploma of the II Cambrai Amateur Photography Salon in France. In 1972, he was recognized as Excellence FIAP. He also received multiple awards from the Association of the Polish Art Photographers and the Ministry of Culture and Art, for such works as Dzieci II / Children II. F. Stobik s works were frequently displayed at exhibitions by the Zachęta Art Gallery in Warsaw in the 1960s and 1970s. They were also shown at An Exhibition of Polish Photography at several U.S. cities, and the VI International Fine Art Photography Exhibition in Denmark, as well as in Bucharest In Poland, the author s works were presented in Sopot, Olsztyn, Białystok, Katowice, Wrocław and Poznań. In 1965, together with Adam Bogusz, he prepared an exhibition entitled Coal mining during the 20 years of the People s Republic of Poland, presented in Sofia. The two authors photographs were published in an album entitled Polski węgiel / Polish Coal. He used bromine, isohelia and solarization techniques. F. Stobik s photographs were published by industry periodicals such as: Świat Fotografii, Fotografia, Almanach Fotografiki Polskiej 65 ZPAF and others.

15 27 / 1944 / Leszno Peter Lindbergh Christy Tu rlington, Los Angeles, 1988/2002 Peter Lindbergh On the reverse of the photograph, there is a signature, edition 13/25, the author s stamp and handwritten inscription: CHRISTY TURLINGTON, LOS ANGELES, 1988, AMERICAN VOGUE, Lindbergh 38 cm x 55 cm author s signature written on the reverse of the photograph, with the title of the photo, edition 13/25 vintage print Peter Lindbergh s photos are among the most valuable works in photography collections. Their auction s are rocketing. 13 This is another world photography star in my collection. He has taken thousands of outstanding photos. One of them Christy was the first step in my attempts at collecting photography. I bought this work from Lindbergh in Paris. There, I had the opportunity of observing the perfect functioning of his huge photography enterprise. I received the print I ordered with a precise signature, thoroughly finished to the smallest detail. The photo, originally published in the American Voque in 1988, emanates the beauty of Christy, a supermodel of that time. Her smile, slightly concealed with her hands, is sensually enchanting. Wojciech Jędrzejewski EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent photographers, known as the poet of sensuality. He is considered to be an outstandingly influential artists, one of those photographers who contributed to the supermodel boom in the early 1990s, but first of all the unrivalled master of portrait. Since 1978 when the first series of his fashion photos were published by Stern magazine have his works been published by all the major world magazines. Today, he continues to capture pop celebrities. He used to shoot all the most popular top models of the 1980s and the 1990s, creating photos for the advertising campaigns of the most famous global brands. The following models were posing in front of his camera lens: Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Stephanie Seymour, Tatitana Patiz. He authored several shoots for the Pirelli calendar. His works were published by such magazines as: Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, or Harper s Bazaar that hired Lindbergh as its lead photographer for many years. He received prestigious worldwide awards for his works. He was recognized several times as the Best Photographer of the Year by a global jury composed of intellectuals and industry experts.

16 28 29 / 1949 / Holandia Frank Boots 5 mu 1994, nr. 3, 1994 Chemar, 1976 / Paweł Pierściński cm x 29 cm signature Frank Boots s works attract attention with the beauty of female nude and the exquisite print development technique. Highly attractive in terms of their visual quality. 19,5 cm x 29,5 cm signature, edition 1/10 Paweł Pierściński s shoots are among the classics of Polish photography. They are distinguishing items for any artwork collection, highly appreciated by collectors and museums EUR estimate: EUR The human being is the key object of this author s artistic interest. It can be a portrait, nude, fashion, man in city space. A meeting between the artist and the model is always an impulse for the creation of every photograph by that author. According to Frank Boots, these meetings are decisive, each of them having a unique value and significance. The artist never captures images unexpectedly, never takes his models by surprise - he would rather search for people who enjoy posing. He focuses on working with women. In his portraits, he shows a person s character and mood, their aura invisible to the naked eye. He is a member of numerous international artist societies, a highly popular master of fine art photography. F. Boots s works can be found in many private and museum collections. Prints developed by the author are characterized by exquisite collector quality. An exhibition of Frank Boots s photographs took place in Warsaw in 2003, at the Julia-Juice&Art gallery. 500 EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent Polish photographers, a writer, critic, expert in photography theory, social activist, author and publisher of books about photography. He authored 500 theoretical papers. He debuted at a fine art photography exhibition in Częstochowa in He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology. Honorary member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers; president of that Association during His artistic and publishing activities were devoted primarily to landscape photography. He set up the Kielce Landscape School, took part in 250 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including the Paris Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennale, the Cremona Salon of Photography. He published more than ten photography albums and a dictionary of Polish photographers biographies entitled Fotografowie / Photographers His photographs were published in such world photography almanachs as Photography YEAR BOOK, Photographis, Fotojahrbuch International, FIAP Almanach. Pierściński s works can be found at the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, the Museum of the History of Photography in Krakow, the Museum of Fine Arts in Łódź, and in private collections in Poland and abroad.

17 30 31 / 1983 / Częstochowa Maciej Jędrzejewski Hands, Barbara Skarga Leszek Kołakowski, 2007/2017 Landscape, before 2002 / Wiktor Wołkow cm x 40 cm signature, edition 1/10 life time print, collector print produced with Lambda Print technique The photograph offered at the auction is a uniquely original image of B. Skarga and L. Kołakowski. The hands can sometimes say as much as the eyes. Photos from the Discussions with the Masterseries have not yet been presented to the general public and as such are a collector s rarity. 70 cm x 100 cm signature life time print, collector print produced with Lambda Print technique The photographs offered at the auction are among this remarkable artist s particularly rare items. Their collector uniqueness relies in the large size and singular editions. These photos are beautiful, romantic landscapes. They were created on the basis of the author s original reversal film for an exhibition held at K. Gierałtowski s Art Gallery before EUR estimate: EUR He graduated with honours from the Faculty of Media Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, specializing in fine art photography; he also studied at the Lodz Film School. He has been taking photos since childhood and his shoot entitled Fire Brigade, which he took at the age of 11, was presented as an artistic debut at an exhibition entitled My Favourite Photographs at the Artemis Art Gallery in Krakow in In 2007, he presented large-sized Bornholm landscape photos at the Pogram art gallery in Warsaw. He has authored a series of photographs entitled Discussions with the Master, composed of photos of professor Leszek Kołakowski, accompanied by the most outstanding Polish intellectuals, taken in Oxford on the set of a movie with the same title. He is also involved in documentation and digitalization of artwork. He has been awarded for his designs produced for commercial publishers. He has authored portraits of many Polish photography artists. 750 EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent Polish landscape and nature photographers. First on negative image film, then on coloured reversal film, he would capture the landscapes and nature of north-eastern Poland, of which he was a great enthusiast. He would be referred to as the master of moods, impressionist, Romanticist. Photographs by W. Wołkow constitute sort of poetic landscape reports, uniquely impressive and distinctive. The volume of his work encompasses more than a hundred individual and group exhibitions. He published more than ten albums, including Biebrza (1997), which he treated with the greatest sentiment. He received numerous awards in national and international contests. He was awarded with a silver medal of Merit for Culture Gloria Artist for his artistic activity. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers.

18 33 Krzysztof Gierałtowski / 1938 / Warsaw Tadeusz Kantor, painter, 1980 Krzysztof Gierałtowski 40 cm x 80 cm signature on the reverse of the photograph, edition 6/10 This artist s works of special collector value are the prints he developed manually in the 1970s and the 1970s, including the presented portrait of Tadeusz Kantor. 18 On the reverse of the photograph, there is the author s authentic inscription in pencil: For Wojtek s collection Krzysztof Gierałtowski EUR estimate: EUR A photographer who is considered the master of Polish portraits. Graduated from the Lodz Film School. He worked for Polish and European advertising agencies, many press editors, including Tygodnik Studencki ITD, a focal point for outstanding Polish reporter photo authors, as well as photo agencies. He authored some fashion photographs as well. He believes that only people seem to be worth an artist s maximum effort. On three hundred thousand negative images, he recorded outstanding and famous personalities from the world of culture. These portraits all share the same title: Poles, Contemporary Portraits. This extraordinary body of artistic work encompasses the following presentations, each of them constituting a separate exhibition: Face to Face, Polish Individualities, Portrait without a Face, Ring, and Remake. He creates an exclusive artistic vision of the people he portrays. He started taking his expressive black and white photographs in the 1960s; three decades later, he started a successful artistic experiment with colour. The works of this winner of numerous prestigious awards and author of many exhibitions in Poland and abroad can be found in: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington; The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Royal Museum of Photography, Oslo; The National Library, Paris; The Zachęta Art Gallery, Warsaw; Polin Jewish Museum in Warsaw; museums and universities in Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Czech Republic; and museums in Krakow, Wrocław, Bydgoszcz, Łódź; Signs of Time Centre of Modern Art in Toruń; Polish and foreign private collections of modern art. His accomplishments include over 350 individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

19 Henri Cartier-Bresson 35 / / Francja Brasserie Lipp, Paris, 1969/2002 Henri Cartier-Bresson 30 cm x 40 cm signature life time print, gelatin silver print Henri Cartier-Bresson s photos are among the most valuable works in art collections, achieving sky-high s. We offer one of the most recognizable photographs by that author, and an icon of Paris. You can still have a cup of coffee in this famous Paris brasserie at Boulevard Saint-Germain 151 where the author took that photograph. 19 Copy of the photo print bearing an authentic signature of the author, additionally embossed with the following text: HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent personalities in world photography. He is considered the father of press photography, an author with unmatched artistic capacity. His photographs were published in the most famous periodicals of three decades. Henri Cartier-Bresson s shoots were shown in all the major art galleries worldwide. In 1955, an exhibition entitled Decisive Moment was the first photo exhibition to be presented in the Louvre, Paris. H. Cartier-Bresson studied painting at Cotenet s and Andre Lhote s studio; afterwards, he completed a course of study in painting and philosophy at the Cambridge University. He took his first photos in His first exhibition took place in 1993 at Julien Levy Gallery, New York. He was one of the co-founders of the famous Magnum photo agency. He travelled to India, Myanmar, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Cuba, Mexico, Canada, Japan, the Soviet Union, and Poland. His works are kept in the collections of: Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris; De Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; University of Fine Arts, Osaka; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris; Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France; Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Getty Museum, Los Angeles; International Center of Photography, New York; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto; Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv; Stockholm Moderna Museet; as well as in private collectors stocks in many countries worldwide.

20 37 / Tadeusz Wański To go on travel, lata 30-te XX w. Tadeusz Wański On the reverse of the photo print, there is the author s authentic inscription in pencil: No. 2, To go on travel, Bromide Paper, and his stamp: TADEUSZ WAŃSKI HON FIAP Art. Photographer, member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers Gdynia, ul. Warszawska cm x 40 cm on the reverse, handwritten inscription in pencil After the author s decease, all his negative images were destroyed; therefore, original works by Tadeusz Wański represent unique collector value EUR estimate: EUR 20 Photograph from a series of shoots of special collector value, taken in the 1930s in Croatia, where the author was travelling to get the sun. The photo enchants viewers with the contrasting whiteness of the woman figure, which gives a unique artistic value to the work. Many photographers, not only of his times, envied Tadeusz Wański for his ability to obtain this type of white. Only two shoots from Croatia have been put to auction by now. The entire series has not yet been presented at an exhibition. It is only shown at Wojciech Jędrzejewski One of the most prominent landscape photographers in Poland, representing the pictorialist movement. He was a business entrepreneur operating in Poznań and Gdynia. The author had his first artistic success already one year after he took up photography. He won a bronze medal at the 1922 Poznań exhibition of Fine Art Photography. He pursued his art with a lot of consistent effort, he was also a continuous learner working on his proficiency in advanced print development techniques. He managed to establish a highly sophisticated, proprietary technique for deriving whiteness on bromide prints, creating impressive images. Those of the author s photographs which present this particular artistic value are considered especially precious by collectors. In addition to his artistic career, the author was a successful manager of artistic photography circles. Together with Tadeusz Cyprian and Bolesław Gadulski, he set up an artistic group called Trójlistek. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers since He received multiple prizes, diplomas and awards for his work at photography exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He presented his work in such cities as Lucerne, Boston, Vienna, Ottawa and Zagreb, as well as many photography salons held in Poland. He was awarded Honoraire Excellence FIAP by the International Federation of Photographic Art. T. Wański s works are among the most frequently purchased items at collector photography auctions in Poland. They are kept by museums and private artwork collections.

21 39 / 1956 / Kraków Marek Wajda 9797/08, from series: Marrakech, 2001 Marek Wajda 28 cm x 41 cm signature, edition 1/15 vintage print, collector print, created with Lambda Print technique author s stamp on the reverse, with the following inscriptions These wonderfully framed images which are offered at the auction were produced with the highest degree of care and make an exquisite impression through their composition and colours. They will match any type of space perfectly, improving its aesthetic quality and creating a friendly atmosphere. Viewing these photos gives the audience a unique pleasure, and the quality is a warrant of collector criteria. 21 Author s stamp on the reverse: Marek Wajda, from the series: Marrakesz 9797/08. Handwritten text: Wojtek this is for your Collection, and a stamp with a representation of a leaf. A sticker to confirm the participation of this work at the Exhibition: Dreamers and Witnesses. Polish photography of the 20th century. National Museum in Krakow, 11 May 20 July EUR estimate: EUR One of the most talented photographers I know. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and defended his final work with honours at professor Henryk Tomaszewski s studio. An outstanding designer, expert and authority in the field of film. Winner of numerous prizes and awards for his design work. He authored many publishing projects books, periodicals, photo albums, as well as marketing publications, record covers and posters devoted to jazz, of which he is a prominent connoisseur. In the 1980s, he worked at Tygodnik Studencki ITD where he was composing the graphic design of the periodical, recognized for the high level of press photography. He has been taking photographs for 40 years. He only started displaying his works at exhibitions when a calendar featuring his images was awarded at Vidical It has become a passion for Marek Wajda to record in memory the atmosphere of places, events and details. He shoots very frequently, but unfortunately he hardly ever presents his great photographs at exhibitions. Marrakech and Funfair are the most recognized series of the artist s photographs. This is what the author himself wrote about his beautiful Marrakech cycle: Colours, scent, sounds, flavours, people, light everything s completely different, one great ornament stimulating all senses with the force of at least a waterfall.

22 40 41 / 1962 / Gniezno Dariusz Dyr / 1938 / Warsaw Venus Agnieszka 1, 1998/2003 Nina Andrycz, actress, 1980 Krzysztof Gierałtowski cm x 40 cm signature, edition 1/20 The photograph by Dariusz Dyr which is offered at the auction refers in terms of style to photographs of B. Bardot, reminding the audience of that style and the figure of the famous actress. 40 cm x 80 cm signature on the reverse of the photograph, edition 6/10 This artist s works of special collector value are the prints he developed manually in the 1970s and the 1970s, including the presented portrait of Nina Andrycz EUR estimate: EUR This artist is called the Polish master of Polish nude photography. He worked with the Polish edition of Playboy where he published numerous centerfolds. He is an unaffiliated photographer. His area of interest is to capture the glamour of the female body, which he considers to be the ultimate form of beauty. Many of his photos were published by Wieczór Wybrzeża and Gazeta Wyborcza. At the moment, he teaches photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Of all the Dariusz Dyr s works that have come to my possession, there are a few which I appreciate most. Venus Agnieszka 1 not only due to its title reminds me of a famous world exhibition of nude art that took place in Krakow many years ago. He sticks to a similar style to that presented at the time by some of the authors. His works emanate with a lot of joyfulness, sometimes even laughter EUR estimate: EUR A photographer who is considered the master of Polish portraits. Graduated from the Lodz Film School. He worked for Polish and European advertising agencies, many press editors, including Tygodnik Studencki ITD, a focal point for outstanding Polish reporter photo authors, as well as photo agencies. He authored some fashion photographs as well. He believes that only people seem to be worth an artist s maximum effort. On three hundred thousand negative images, he recorded outstanding and famous personalities from the world of culture. These portraits all share the same title: Poles, Contemporary Portraits. This extraordinary body of artistic work encompasses the following presentations, each of them constituting a separate exhibition: Face to Face, Polish Individualities, Portrait without a Face, Ring, and Remake. He creates an exclusive artistic vision of the people he portrays. He started taking his expressive black and white photographs in the 1960s; three decades later, he started a successful artistic experiment with colour. The works of this winner of numerous prestigious awards and author of many exhibitions in Poland and abroad can be found in: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington; The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Royal Museum of Photography, Oslo; The National Library, Paris; The Zachęta Art Gallery, Warsaw; Polin Jewish Museum in Warsaw; museums and universities in Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Czech Republic; and museums in Krakow, Wrocław, Bydgoszcz, Łódź; Signs of Time Centre of Modern Art in Toruń; Polish and foreign private collections of modern art. His accomplishments include over 350 individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

23 42 43 Tadeusz Wański / / Under the Burden of the Sky, 1920s Landscape, before 2002 Wiktor Wołkow cm x 40 cm on the reverse of the photograph, there is an exhibition sticker with a typed inscription: WAŃSKI Tadeusz, Poland 1. Under the burden of the sky After the author s decease, all his negative images were destroyed; therefore, original works by Tadeusz Wański represent unique collector value. 70 cm x 100 cm signature life time print, collector print produced with Lambda Print technique The photographs offered at the auction are among this remarkable artist s particularly rare items. Their collector uniqueness relies in the large size and singular editions. These photos are beautiful, romantic landscapes. They were created on the basis of the author s original reversal film for an exhibition held at K. Gierałtowski s Art Gallery before EUR estimate: EUR The offered photograph is one of the author s works of unique collector value. It is an exquisitely precious image in artistic terms, recognized in the canon of Polish photographic art of the 20th century. It enchants the audience with its composition, whiteness and shades of grey, as well as the whiteness of the women figure walking upwind, in the central position of this romantic landscape s composition. A bromide print of the image was manually developed by the author in his darkroom; after almost 100 years, it presents the ultimate collector value. It is a very rare shoot by the master of Polish pictorialism. The photo was frequently presented by the author at exhibitions in Poland and abroad. 750 EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent Polish landscape and nature photographers. First on negative image film, then on coloured reversal film, he would capture the landscapes and nature of north-eastern Poland, of which he was a great enthusiast. He would be referred to as the master of moods, impressionist, Romanticist. Photographs by W. Wołkow constitute sort of poetic landscape reports, uniquely impressive and distinctive. The volume of his work encompasses more than a hundred individual and group exhibitions. He published more than ten albums, including Biebrza (1997), which he treated with the greatest sentiment. He received numerous awards in national and international contests. He was awarded with a silver medal of Merit for Culture Gloria Artist for his artistic activity. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers.

24 45 / Jeanloup Sieff Guermantes, 1986 Jeanloup Sieff 32,5 cm x 47 cm signature, on the reverse author s stamp J. Sieff s photographs are among the greatest attractions for collectors. Neverending volumes of copies are produced as the icons of fashion, nude, portrait, and Paris the artist s dearest city EUR estimate: EUR One of the most famous fashion photographers, an artist of Polish origin. He took one of his first photos in Zakopane during his winter vacation. It is also the opening image of his original photo album. He studied literature, journalism and photography. He started his career as a freelancer, creating fashion shoots for Elle. Member of the Magnum Group for which he created a photo report from Poland in Since 1961, he focused on the world of fashion, taking photographs for the most famous magazines in the United States and Europe, such as Harper s Baazar, Look, Voque, Glamour, Esquire Magazine. J. Sieff s photographs were published in 40 albums and books with landscapes, fashion photography, nude photography and press photos. Guermantes dated 1988, presents a road leading to the town where the plot of Marcel Proust s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, volume three, unwinds. Doesn t the Marcel Proust s spirit rustling among poplars whisper that the summer was wonderful? This is how the photograph was captioned in the author s album.

25 46 47 / 1971 / Warsaw Tomasz Gudzowaty Zebras at a Watering Place, 1999 Strongwomen, 1995/2002 / 1951 / Złotów Łódź Kaliska/Andrzej Świetlik cm x 39 cm signature An interesting image captured by the author during his travels to Africa in By closing in on the zebras, the author accomplished 40 cm x 45 cm signature, edition AP photograph framed in passe-partout and affixed to cardboard with adhesive The print of this photograph is one of the last ones produced by the author manually in a darkroom, which makes it an extreme rarity for collectors EUR estimate: EUR Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Warsaw University. Member of the European Press Agency and the Association of Polish Art Photographers. Winner of numerous prestigious prizes and honours. In 1999, he won the 1st prize at World Press Photo, category: Nature and Environment, for his photo entitled The First Lesson of Killing. He received the 2nd prize in the same category the following year. He took part in numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad. A series of works by Tomasz Gudzowaty entitled Following The Rain was shown at an exhibition in Zachęta Art Gallery, Warsaw. This author s photographs are published by Polish and foreign press. Tomasz Gudzowaty dedicated a series of photographs taken at XI Paralympic Games, Sydney 2000, to athletes with disabilities. Together with Robert Bogusławski, the author created a well known cycle of photographs entitled The Shaolin Monastery. During , he was the operator of Yours Gallery in Warsaw. In 2011, he received an award from the Polish Society of Authors and Composers ZAiKS in visual arts for his accomplishments in photography EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent Polish author of portraits, performer, co-founder and author of numerous productions by Łódź Kaliska avant-garde art group. One of the assumptions of the group founders is the new pop, or to make art more beautiful. He got his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Media Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He teaches photography at universities, including the Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts and the Warsaw School of Information Technology, faculty: Graphics. Author of thousands of photographs that were printed on covers of periodicals, records, posters, billboards, photo albums, marketing publications, and used in advertising campaigns. Together with Łódź Kaliska artists, he took part in more than 350 individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including such cities as: Marseilles, Tokyo, Beijing, Vienna, Cologne, Budapest, and many Polish cities. His works are held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Łódź, in the National Museums in Poznań, Wrocław and Kielce, the Silesian Museum in Katowice, collections of Zachęta Art Gallery in Szczecin, Olsztyn and Łódź, and in private art collections. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers. Author of the following exhibitions: Luminous Portraits; Slightly Quieter; Like Children and Nadziei 5; Fairy Tales; The Blue Skylight; Artists Were Trying to Come Gladly. The portraits he created of Polish rock music stars, such as Grzegorz Ciechowski Obywatel G.C., who worked with the author for 13 years, of Kora Jackowska or Justyna Steczkowska are unrivalled models of photographs in this genre.

26 48 49 / Paweł Pierściński / 1950 / London Portrait of Kieleckie Region, 1967 Constanza, from series: Midsummer Night s Dream, 2000/2002 Chris Niedenthal cm x 27 cm signature, edition 1/10 Paweł Pierściński s shoots are among the classics of Polish photography. They are distinguishing items for any artwork collection, highly appreciated by collectors. 31,5 cm x 47,5 cm, signature vintage print, collector print, Lambda Print technique on the reverse authentic inscription by the author: For Wojtek, for his collection. Chris Niedenthal, Warsaw 22/11/2002 Midsummer Night s Dream, Hamburg 2000 The Midsummer Night s Dream photographs, like those from the series entitled Taboo Portraits of Those Not Portrayed, taken in 2006, present a motif which is extremely rarely undertaken by the author. This is the only print of that photograph which the author managed to sell by now EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent Polish photographers, a writer, critic, expert in photography theory, social activist, author and publisher of books about photography. He authored 500 theoretical papers devoted to photography. He debuted at a fine art photography exhibition in Częstochowa in He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology. Honorary member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers; president of that Association during His artistic and publishing activities were devoted primarily to landscape photography. He set up the Kielce Landscape School, took part in 250 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including the Paris Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennale, the Cremona Salon of Photography. He published more than ten photography albums and a dictionary of Polish photographers biographies entitled Fotografowie / Photographers His photographs were published in such world photography almanachs as Photography YEAR BOOK, Photographis, Fotojahrbuch International, Almanach FIAP. His works can be found at the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, the Museum of the History of Photography in Krakow, the Museum of Fine Arts in Łódź, and in private collections in Poland and abroad. 500 EUR estimate: EUR An artist with extraordinary talent and a unique sense of selecting certain essential topics, historical moments or places that should be recorded for the next generations to see. A highly professional set of skills. During the period of Martial Law, he would send his photographs captured in Poland, without viewing them, to the international editors he was working with. He would only see them many years later. This story is a proof of the artist s extraordinary virtuosity in the field of photography. He has taken thousands of exquisite photographs in Poland since the early 1970s when he came here from England to live until the present day. Chris Niedenthal is among the most influential personalities in contemporary Polish culture and in the circle of Polish photographers. Constanza is a portrait of a disabled girl playing the role of one of the characters in W. Shakespeare s Midsummer Night s Dream, staged in 2000 in Hamburg by children and youth with intellectual disabilities. The author, delighted with the disabled actors skill, when he run out of his only roll of film, raced to a newsstand nearby to get more film. This is how an enchanting series of photographs of this 2-hour show was created. The photos were published in Integracje monthly, and Constanza was put on the cover; they were also presented at exhibitions. Wojciech Jędrzejewski

27 50 51 / 1949 / Częstochowa / / Latvia Jan Spałwan Cornfield, 1976/1980 Passing Away, 1996 Wojciech Prażmowski cm x 49 cm signature I personally bought the photos offered at the auction from Jan Spałwan at his house in Kielce. Like many other photographers of that generation, the author would not always edit or sign his photos. He did not care about those details which he considered unnecessary. 38 cm x 45,5 cm signature on the reverse: authentic inscription by the author in pencil: For Wojtek s collection. W. Prażmowski s photographs auctioned here are the most characteristic of that remarkable author s work. In addition to their artistic value, they are also characterized by exquisite development the prints were developed manually in a darkroom by the author. These photographs will add prestige to every collection and to any kind of space where they will be exposed EUR estimate: EUR He has been a photographer since 1945 while at the same time operating a photo lab in Kielce, together with his wife. He took up fine art photography in Member of Grupa 10x10 art group. Founder of Spałwaówka, an Author s Photo Gallery. The primary motif of his work is the landscape of Kieleckie region, which he was capturing out of his inner need to contact nature. His photos represent the uniqueness, beauty and emotion of this land. His Cornfield, Harvest or Ploughed Earth have permanently made their way to the canon of Polish landscape photography. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, AFIAP. His works were shown at 500 individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including the United States and Japan. He took part in the artistic activities of the Kielce Landscape School. Together with the works of other members of that art group, his photographs were presented in exhibition series entitled Portrait of the Earth, Wild Fir Forest, Small Landscape Forms, Kielce Włoszczowa, Kielce Style Land. He received multiple prizes, medals and diplomas for his work, also from the Minister of Culture and Art. 750 EUR estimate: EUR One of the most prominent Polish photographers. Full professor in the field of video arts, teaches photography at the Lodz Film School and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He has been involved in photography since 1968, the year of his debut at the National Exhibition of Fine Art Photography in Częstochowa. He graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography in Brno and the Film School in Lodz. He took part in more than 300 photography exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers since He represents the creation photography genre. Author of photo-objects. He created a series of sculpture installations dedicated to famous artists in the world of culture, including Andrzej Wajda, Gunter Grass, Akira Kurosawa. They were presented at the Centre of Contemporary Art Collection, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. In 1999 W. Prażmowski created a photo session in Sevilla for Mitsuhiro Matsuda, a Japanese fashion creator, with the participation of Tara, a top model at the time and an Abyssinian princess. His works from this cycle are enchanting in terms of composition, scenery, light, and printing technique. W. Prażmowski s photographs can be found in the following collections, among others: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Strieped House Museum of Art, Tokyo; Lauder Foundation, New York; Museet for Fotokunst, Odessa; Musee de l Elusee, Lausanne; Museum of Fine Arts, Lodz; Centre for Contemporary Art CSW Ujazdowski Castle; National Museum, Wrocław; Silesian Museum, Katowice. Bruno Trompier was hired by La Maison de la Photographie to produce a biography film about W. Prażmowski.

28 52 53 Jakub Pajewski / 1962 Julia, 1999 Children, 1954 / Franciszek Stobik cm x 36 cm, signature, edition 1/20 sticker on the reverse to confirm the participation of the work in the exhibition: Dreamers and witnesses. Polish photography of the 20th century. National Museum, Krakow, Poland. 11 May 20 July One of the most enchanting portraits by Jakub Pajewski, produced with the ultimate collector precision. 29 cm x 39 cm artist s stamp on the reverse Buying photographs by Franciszek Stobik, an artist who has not yet gained a broader recognition despite his exquisite skill will probably be an attractive investment in an author who is doomed to gain popularity soon, and his works are going to become more valuable EUR estimate: EUR Graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Member of the international Familja Radjo Varsawa theatre, music, carnival group. Together with Juliusz Sokołowski, Paweł Żak and Andrzej Georgiew, he signed up for the 6 Rules of the Latarnik Artistic Coalition. Author of outstanding portraits of Polish prominent actors, shoots of theatre plays and interior design. In 1988, he started a series of photographs to document the life of a family E.J.A.S.E.M.A.A.A.A.I.D.P these are the initials (first names) of the individuals being captured. Julia, a large-size photo by J. Pajewski, decorated the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw in 2002 during the Enlargement exhibition. Jakub Pajewski s photographic works can be found in private collections in Poland and abroad. He is a perfectionist with traditional photography techniques and the author of perfectly finished photobooks. 375 EUR estimate: EUR He started taking photos when he was 12 years of age. Before World War II, he was a member of the Silesian Society of Photography Enthusiasts. He set up and presided over the Silesian Region of the Association of Polish Art Photographers in Katowice. Mining has become the object of F. Stobik s artistic search. Many of the author s works show such typical items of 1950s and 1960s Silesia as old mines, wood yards, or slag heaps. The artist took part in numerous photo exhibitions where he received awards and honours. In 1952, he received a honorary diploma of the II Cambrai Amateur Photography Salon in France. In 1972, he was recognized as Excellence FIAP. He also received multiple awards from the Association of the Polish Art Photographers and the Ministry of Culture and Art, for such works as Dzieci II / Children II. F. Stobik s works were frequently displayed at exhibitions by the Zachęta Art Gallery in Warsaw in the 1960s and 1970s. They were also shown at An Exhibition of Polish Photography at several U.S. cities, and the VI International Fine Art Photography Exhibition in Denmark, as well as in Bucharest In Poland, the author s works were presented in Sopot, Olsztyn, Białystok, Katowice, Wrocław and Poznań. In 1965, together with Adam Bogusz, he prepared an exhibition entitled Coal mining during the 20 years of the People s Republic of Poland, presented in Sofia. The two authors photographs were published in an album entitled Polski węgiel / Polish Coal. He used bromine, isohelia and solarization techniques. F. Stobik s photographs were published by industry periodicals such as: Świat Fotografii, Fotografia, Almanach Fotografiki Polskiej 65 ZPAF and others.

29 54 55 / 1956 / Kraków Marek Wajda 9790/07, from series: Marrakech, 2001 from series: Contact, 1993 / 1947 / Warsaw Zygmunt Rytka cm x 41 cm signature, edition 1/15 vintage print, collector print, created with Lambda Print technique author s stamp on the reverse, with the following inscriptions These wonderfully framed images which are offered at the auction were produced with the highest degree of care and make an exquisite impression through their composition and colours. They will match any type of space perfectly, improving its aesthetic quality and creating a friendly atmosphere. Viewing these photos gives the audience a unique pleasure, and the quality is a warrant of collector criteria. 24 cm x 30,5 cm signature author s fingerprint on the reverse of the photograph Photographs by Zygmunt Rytka are among the most sought items by art collectors. They are very attractive in terms of their artistic value and will enrich any art collection with best value work EUR estimate: EUR One of the most talented photographers I know. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and defended his final work with honours at professor Henryk Tomaszewski s studio. An outstanding designer, expert and authority in the field of film. Winner of numerous prizes and awards for his design work. He authored many publishing projects books, periodicals, photo albums, as well as marketing publications, record covers and posters devoted to jazz, of which he is a prominent connoisseur. In the 1980s, he worked at Tygodnik Studencki ITD where he was composing the graphic design of the periodical, recognized for the high level of press photography. He has been taking photographs for 40 years. He only started displaying his works at exhibitions when a calendar featuring his images was awarded at Vidical It has become a passion for Marek Wajda to record in memory the atmosphere of places, events and details. He shoots very frequently, but unfortunately he hardly ever presents his great photographs at exhibitions. Marrakech and Funfair are the most recognized series of the artist s photographs. This is what the author himself wrote about his beautiful Marrakech cycle: Colours, scent, sounds, flavours, people, light everything s completely different, one great ornament stimulating all senses with the force of at least a waterfall. 750 EUR estimate: EUR An interdisciplinary artist following the neo-avantgarde tradition who uses photography and creates installations. He works with photographic and video techniques. For many years, he has been capturing rocks in the Białka river of the Tatra Mountains, a motif of his series entitled Supplementary Images and Continuity of the Infinite. As the author perceives rocks as a symbol of eternity and infiniteness of nature, he puts them in movement in his installations, thus questioning the stability they are typically associated with. He also made this point in his Dynamic Objects. Although they are not moving in photographs, the artist notes that they are capable of activating our imagination and creating a new kind of intellectual space. Works by Zygmunt Rytka are held in the collections of the National Museum in Wrocław; Studio Art Gallery in Warsaw; Warmia and Masuria Museum in Olsztyn; Museum of Fine Arts in Łódź; Museum of the History of Photography in Krakow; as well as Polish and foreign private collections. He is one of the founders of In Situ Foundation for Contemporary Art. Author s stamp on the reverse: Marek Wajda, from the series: Marrakesz 9790/07. Handwritten text: Wojtek this is for your Collection, and a stamp reading as follows: Live carefully; a sticker to confirm the participation of this work at the Exhibition: Dreamers and Witnesses. Polish photography of the 20th century. National Museum in Krakow, 11 May 20 July 2008.