Tadeusz Jaroszynski
Recollections VII
About this Item
signed and dated '94; inscribed with the artist's name, the title and medium on an Everard Read label adhered to the reverse; inscribed with the title on the reverse
Provenance
Everard Read, Johannesburg.
Property of a Gentleman.
Notes
"Now resident in France, Tadeusz Jaroszynski's work has always been pitched somewhere between his European roots and his years spent in South Africa. Born in Yugoslavia to Polish/Finnish parents, Jaroszynski received his training as an artist in Helsinki where he also met his wife Karin. They subsequently relocated to South Africa in the late 1950s, where they carved out a unique artistic niche for themselves. Flooded with a gentle melancholia and nostalgia that is associated with the artist's Eastern-European past, and a quality of light, colour and form that is reminiscent of the northern European painting tradition, these figures stand before a luminous Karoo landscape with a single windmill. But their gazes are averted from the landscape, suggesting that it is not the site of their meditative attention, but that they are recalling or dreaming of other places and other times"1
1Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, unpaginated.
Literature
Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, illustrated in black and white, unpaginated, cat. no. 18.
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