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THE PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE:
DEDICATED TO LECH WALESA AND SOLIDARITY
1982. Wet & dry drawing media on
paper, framed.
Exhibited at the Landmark Center, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1982 with the
national exhibition "West '82/Art & the Law." Published in
the West '82/Art & the Law catalogue.
Recently reacquired by the artist, the work is available for
purchase.
$2,000.
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1984
Ink
16" height x 20" width
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RYTRO
LANDSCAPE, POLAND
1984
I drew this while sitting on a mountainside in the village of Rytro in
August '84 in the Polish side of the Tatra Mountains near Czechoslovakia.
In the foreground you can see the village...the fields are patchwork
patterns - very similar to English and Scottish farms.
The whole image is a sort of "mythological beast"
facing to the right. The legs at lower left and right. The head to the
upper right with horns on top facing left...and a much larger horn faces left on its back...
within that (upper right) is the form of a bird composed of negative space.
$2,000.
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HAYFIELDS,
RYTRO, POLAND, SUMMER '84
Ink, pencil and watercolor.
Drawn on-site on a mountainside overlooking the farming village of
Rytro in southern Poland. It was a great place to draw. Animals were out
and about in the village and I wondered how they knew which chicken, cow
or goat belonged to which family? The hay had recently been cut and was
stacked in piles on the mountainside. It was like walking into a
Brueghel painting, except that I was there in 1984 rather than 1584.
Private Collection: E.T. Bruce & Family
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'POLAND, POLAND OVER THE SHINY
SEAS'
1986
25" H x 36" W
Lithographic crayon with red, white & blue penciling on aluminum
litho plate with rounded corners
Plac Wolnosj translates as Freedom Square. The last time I was in Poland
in the fall of ’85, I stayed in the Music Conservatory and Art Students
dormitory nearby. The dorm had been a Gestapo interrogation & torture
center; later a Communist police station. The blood must have run heavily
over the years. Every day someone placed flowers in the front of the
building next to the entryway steps.
A very rare and unusual artwork.
$900.
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Left: Image 9 ¼"H x 6 ½"W.
Frame: 16 ¼"H x 14 1/8"W.
Right: Image:
7 13/16"H x 4 ¾"W.
Frame: 14 7/8"H x 13 ¾"W.
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2 KRAKOW SKETCHES,
SUMMER ’84
Two of ten small sketchbook drawings drawn in Krakow’s
"old city" during my first trip to Poland.
The writing in lower right (of the drawing at left) states:
"Portion of spire on church roof / side roof / 14 July ’84 /
while being amusingly bothered by 2 laughing little girls
living next door w/ questions in Polish & "OK?" "OK?"
Notes on the drawing
(of the drawing at right) state:
Poradnictwo Rodzinne / Exterior spire under
renovation from side of theatre building (S.W. Ducha) 12 August Krakowski
Th [Feb 2002 note: the rest of that word is covered by the mat and I
assume it says theatre in Polish]
Collection of the artist
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RUTUSZ (TOWN HALL), NOWY SACZ.
Dated in ink on the drawing: 3 August 1984.
Size: 14 1/4" H x 19 1/2" W
Black India ink, with 3 rubber stamps of a ram at bottom
and one of a bird rubber-stamped on the paper.
Private Collection Deb Figen & Rainer Waldman
Adkins
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TOP LEVEL KRAKOWSKI TEATR MUZYCZNY
12 AUGUST '84 STONE HEADS
1984.
Paper size: 8 7/16" H x 10 9/16" W
Felt tip pen.
Collection of the artist.
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PROLETARYAT
1984. Krakow, municipal theatre building.
Felt tip pen, with artified mat.
Outside dimensions of mat: 15 1/16" H x 16 17/16" W
Images A-D (left column)
A. Inside mat, not currently seen as framed but shown at left: with the
three magenta ink portraits on the mat and 2 Krakow trolley tickets
("bilet autobusowy") and a 100 zlotych "Proletaryat
Narodowy Bank Polski"
currency note (100 sto zlotych).
Collection of the artist.
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RYNEK 16 AUG
1984. Krakow. Felt tip pen.
Drawing paper: 7" H x 9 1/.4" W
Mat: 14 1/4" H x 16" W. The mat has collaged on Polish mail
and customs receipts, a Polish postage stamp and an ink drawing by
Elzbieta Kozarski titled
"Rytro." Ms. Kozarski, an American-Polish artist, attended the
art course with Segan in '84.
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GRAND DOORWAY, WAWEL
CASTLE, KRAKOW
1984. Felt tip pen and charcoal
pencils.
Drawing paper: 11 3/4" H x 13 3/8" W
Notes, in felt tip pen, at bottom of the drawing state:
"pencils were too soft & felt pens
weren't working. Some grand church.
[in
pencil:] Wawel [then felt tip:] near River Vistula 14 July
'84. (next to enormous castle?) works better from a distance"
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EXTERIOR KRAKOWSKI TEATR
MUZYCZNY,
ARCH ABOVE 2nd STORY
1984. Drawing paper: 8 1/2" H x 5" W
Mat: 16" H x 13 1/2" W
Mat has ink drawing on it, Polish postage stamps and a collaged-on piece
of a snail-mail envelope with a rubber stamp stamp stating
EXPRES - PAR AVION.
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JESUS C IN KRAKOW
1985-86.
Pencil, colored pencil and metal stars on paper; inset in a wooden frame
with hand-painted symbols and words.
The portrait of Jesus was drawn at a national art museum in Krakow. The
subject was a several hundred hundred years old sculpture-figure of
Jesus, carving in the
round. The museums collection was sculpture and painting
from the middle ages and Renaissance. (Jews do not typically say Christ
or Jesus Christ since we don't accept Jesus as the messiah; hence we say
Jesus in reference. This is in contrast to most language usage in most
western art museums & art galleries, as well as art historians when
referring to works of art depicting Jesus, of which there are probably
tens of thousands.)
A
wedding present for American Catholic friends.
Private collection
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KRAKOW
CHURCH STEEPLE and INSECT
1986
Two separate etchings printed side-by-side & hand-colored.
Private Collection: Wojteich & Roseanna
Bochenek,
Cupar, Scotland
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