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Watercolor of Flowers by Wladyslaw Brzoko

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Watercolor of Flowers by Wladyslaw Brzoko
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This item SOLD at 2018 Jan 20 @ 15:51UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Watercolor painting by Wladyslaw Brzosko (1912-2011). 24" x 18", nicely matted and framed 32.75" x 26.5". A giant in fine art who was finally able to live his last 50 years in a life as an artist, following a tumultuous childhood and young adulthood marked by alienation, separation from his family, service in the underground Polish army (Armia Krajova) throughout WWII and later by the deception he was forced to practice as a young professional in the Polish Communist government where he labored as an art conservator and restorer while secretly supporting a free Poland. After the war, Brzosko worked for several years as an architect and art conservator in the Gdansk area (northern Poland) while painting marine landscapes and other subjects. From 1956 to 1960, Brzosko lived in Paris among prominent artists and continued his painting. In 1960 he moved to New York City where, until recently, he maintained a studio on the Upper West Side. For seventeen years Brzosko supported himself as a night custodian at the New York Public Library and painted during the day. His devotion to his art was so absolute that he declined better job opportunities. Brzosko's body of work consists of numerous landscapes of New York City, Arizona, and Paris; portraits; still lifes and other genres. In addition to his oil paintings he completed countless preparatory sketches in ink, pencil and watercolor, which are in themselves distinguished pieces of art. Most of his early work perished during the war or was abandoned before escaping Poland in 1956.

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