SALE! Brand NEW! Polish Master Surrealist Z.Beksinski Print, Poland

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PLEASE, READ BEFORE YOU BID!!! This magnificent Beksinski painting was published in Beksinski 2 Album! Medium Size 25 1/4" x 18"(Approx. 64 x 45.5 cm.) Zdzislaw Beksinski, Surrealist from Poland Print! You are bidding on a RARE Print of a Medium size of the late Zdzislaw Beksinski (1929-2005) oil on Masonite painting, originally painted in 1978 in Poland.The included photo is of the actual Print you're bidding on.There may be some creases along the edges of the print due to the transportation and no border. USPS First Class is $3 or $6 for Priority Mail S&H in US only.Payment arrangements must be made within three days of auction closing.Paypal or Cashiers Check only! Tuesday, February 22, 2005 · Polish painter Beksinski found dead By VANESSA GERA ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Beksinski who was one of Poland's leading c ontemporary artists, was found dead with stab wounds at his home in Warsaw,Poland, police said Beksinski was 75. WARSAW, Poland -- Zdzislaw Beksinski, a leading Polish surrealist painter known for his images of death, was found stabbed to death at his Warsaw home on Tuesday, police said.Relatives found Beksinski's body overnight, and "everything indicates it was murder," police spokeswoman Zuzanna Talar said. He suffered multiple stab wounds, and police said there were no signs of forced entry or robbery. Beksinski, 75, was considered one of Poland's leading contemporary artists. He emerged on the Polish art scene in the 1950s and was best known for his abstract renditions of skeletons, monster-like creatures and other apocalyptic images evoking death and decay. "We all see death before our eyes," Beksinski said at the opening of an exhibition of his work at Warsaw's Zacheta Gallery in 2002, the news agency PAP reported. "I am not an exception." "Personally, I am more afraid of dying than death itself. This is not a fear of emptiness but of suffering - and this is what I am most afraid of." Beksinski also enjoyed a large following outside Poland - mainly in France, Japan and the United States - among fans of surrealist art and collectors, said James Cowan, the president of Morpheus Fine Art, which published a book on Beksinski and has sold some of his works. Cowan said Beksinski's paintings sold for between $30,000 and $100,000 to collectors - among them a number of "Oscar-winning people in Hollywood." He said he could not identify the buyers. "He's just a brilliant modern master," Cowan said in an interview from his office in Las Vegas. "Poles consider him the finest contemporary artist. But the art goes beyond the borders of Poland. It is ... very classical in style." Beksinski studied architecture in Krakow before throwing himself into painting, photography and drawings. Beksinski progressed from realism to a more abstract style that often depicted glowing scenes of skeletons and other images evocative of apocalypse and death. The hazy use of light in his paintings was indicative of the artists who influenced him: Swiss painter Arnold Boecklin and British painter J.M.W. Turner. In the 1990s, he expanded his repertoire to include computer-generated images in his trademark surrealist style. "Zdzislaw Beksinski won our imagination and the hearts of everyone - the public and the critics," Zacheta Gallery director Agnieszka Morawinska told PAP. Though Beksinski depicted foreboding, dark images, he always resisted attempts to analyze their meaning. "It misses the point to ask me what my paintings mean," he once said. "Simply, I do not know myself. Moreover, I am not at all interested in knowing." Zdzislaw Beksinski works are exhibited in the National Museums in Wroclaw, Warsaw, Krakow, in a dedicated Museum in his hometown Sanok in southern Poland and Beksinski Gallery in Czestochowa, Poland as well as the Museum of Fine Art in Goteborg, Sweden. T... read more

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