VARNISH FINE ART

MAY 5- JUNE 2, 2012

I Put Rodin in one pocket, Michelangelo in the other, and I walk towards the sun
Varnish Fine Art is pleased to present Szukalski, a solo exhibition of
works by the forgotten master artist, Stanislav Szukalski. The show
includes Szukalski’s bronze sculptures plus never before exhibited
2-D works, including original conté and pen & ink drawings. Hailed
as an artistic genius from the age of six and lauded as Poland’s
“Greatest Living Artist,” Szukalski lived in relative obscurity and
varying levels of poverty after the Siege of Warsaw in 1939 led to
the destruction or confiscation of most of his works. He returned to
the US and lived a life in service to his artistic passions and a belief
in the essential nobility of “man” that infused his works until his
death in 1987.
“I put Rodin in one pocket, Michelangelo in the
other, and I walk towards the sun.” -- Szukalski
 Struggle
1917
Cast Bronze
Edition of 9
10 x 9 x 19”
$39,000
Ant et es mintur, quidios culparcid mod ullecturitem quunt aut optionseque molorepudis
kkIn Szukalski, the artist’s never before seen two-dimensional works are available to the
public for the first time as well as his masterful large and small bronze sculptures. Over
his lifetime, Szukalski studied other cultures and took a hard look at his own, developing
a theory (some say pseudo-science) of the origins and history of modern day civilization
called “Zermatism” on which he wrote and illustrated 42 volumes. Szukalski’s unortho-
dox perspectives and “inconvenient opinions” fused with his technical skills as a sculptor
and draughtsman make for beautifully confrontational sculptures and drawings of uncom-
mon passion and thoughtfulness. A review of his 2001 retrospective in the Los Angeles
Times noted “As a man and an artist he thrived on bold gestures… his work aspires to the
monumental, regardless of the physical scale… “

Frozen Youth
Cast Bronze
Edition of 9
24 x 9 x 20”
$22,200
 Ant et es mintur, quidios cul-
Imploration
(a.k.a.-A Plea) parThe late screenwriter Ben
1914 Hecht described Szukalski as
Cast Bronze “starving, muscular, aristocrat-
12 x 12 x 38”
ic and smoldering with disdain
$21,600
for lesser beings than himself.”
This personal confidence and
(failure?) to compromise re-
sulted in a “cultural gag order”
that would effectively deny
him entrée and acceptance into
the Art World and ensured his
genius not be recognized by
any but the most ardent admir-
ers of his strong will and ex-
ceptional talents, in spite of his
questionable prejudices and
ideologies. Varnish Fine Art is
proud to be one of the few ex-
hibiting galleries for Stanislav
Szukalski.

Seated Maiden
Cast Bronze
Edition of 35
6 x 6 x 9”
$3,000
 Landscape Painter As Cloud Picker
1952
Conté on Paper
30 x 38”
Eva $15,000 Heavenly Nurse
Cast Bronze Cast Bronze
Edition of 30 Edition of 25
3x2 3 x 2.5”
$225 $225
$225
 Stuttering Philosopher
1915
Cast Bronze
Edition of 25
4 x 5 x 12”
$3,000

Copernicus Tower
Limited Edition Print
26 x 20”
Signed
$600
 Atlantea
Cast Bronze
Edition of 9
18 x 13 x 22”
$40,000
, #7/9 18 x 13 x 22”
$40,000.00

AnA retrospective of Szukalski’sAtlantea

(a.k.a. Man and Thought)
She is sitting on the horizon with her head in the clouds, gigantic yet beautiful. She
grieves over her deluge Metropolis, which perished beneath the seas, and over the
vanished attainments of her Culture and Civilization which are lost to human histo-
ry. Man, riding on the back of a snail, looks up to Atlantea and can only offer her...
a snake.
 Krak, Carried Away
Gammadion Plow
Cast Bronze
Ink on Paper
Edition of 12
17 x 21”
6 x 8 x 10”
$3,500
$5,500

Labor
1916
Cast Bronze
18 x 6 x 16”
$18,000
Gaul with Stag Head
1973
Conté & Ink on Paper
26 x 32”
$15,000

White Horse
Cast Bronze
Edition of 60
6 x 3 x 4”
$2,600
 Copernicus
1971
Limited Edition Print
18 x 19”
Signed
$600

Beware of Subhuman Revolutions Copernicus Perfidious Angloamerican Duplicity

Cast Bronze Cast Bronze Cast Bronze
Edition of 12 Edition of 12 Edition of 12
9” round 10” round 10” round
$2,400 $2,400 $2,400
Solzhenitsyn Humans Ensnared Adam Mickiewicz
Cast Bronze Cast Bronze Cast Bronze
Edition of 6 Edition of 12 Edition of 40
10” round 8” round 8” round
$2,400 $1,200 $2,400

Katyn Medallion
Cast Bronze
Edition of 100
3” round
$225
Monument for Warsaw Heros
1958
Pen & Ink on Paper
21 x 17”
$4,000
 Chelmno
1954
Pen & Ink on Paper
Erin Go Brata
21 x 17”
Cast Bronze
$3,000
Edition of 40
7.5” round
$1,200

Gammadion Lecture Hall

Giclee Print on Archival Paper
Edition of 12
35 x 30”
$450

Polish Eagle
Cast Bronze
Edition of 6
5” round
$1,200

Menora
Cast Bronze
Edition of 12
5.5 x 6.25”
$1,200
Argus
Zermatism Series
Pen & Ink on Paper Lioness Ko
19 x 15” Zermatism Series
$1,800 Pen & Ink on Paper
12 x 15”
$800

Norway India Krak Slaying the Dragon

Zermatism Series Zermatism Series Zermatism Series
Pen & Ink on Paper Pen & Ink on Paper Pen & Ink on Paper
22 x 18” 13 x 17” 19 x 15”
$900 $1,000 $1,500
 Mayan Chichen Itza
Zermatism Series
Pen & Ink on Paper
19 x 15”
$1,500

Etruscan (small)
Zermatism Series
Pen & Ink on Paper Cecora
19 x 15”
1927
$1,500
Cast Bronze
Edition of 9
Mayan Oce-On Cast in Poland
Zermatism Series 8 x 8 x 16”
Pen & Ink on Paper $17,000
19 x 15”
$1,500

Etruscan Italy
Zermatism Series
Pen & Ink on Paper
21.5 x 17.5”
$1,200
Nearsolar Epoch
Graphite & Ink on Strathmore Paper
21 x 31”
$5,000

Mooncore
Conté & Ink on Paper
20 x 26”
$4,500

Head of Yaltantal
1945
Cast Bronze
Edition of 35 Dyeprint Transfer
4 x 4 x 4” Giclee Print
$2,000 24 x 28”
$600
Merman
Cast Bronze
Edition of 6
4 x 5 x 5”
$5,500

Frog
Cast Bronze
Edition of 50
3 x 1.5”
$300

Rybogini of Gidle
1975
Conté on Paper
28.25 x 27”
$12,500

Arm of Twilight
1915
Cast Bronze
Edition of 6
9.5 x 4.25 x 3.25”
$3,000
 Defense
1929
Cast Bronze
Edition of 9
14 x 20 x 30”
$32,000

Fallen Angel
Giclee Print on Archival Paper
20 x 26”
$200
Cross
Zermatism Series
Ink on Paper
20 x 13”
$900
 Struggle
Signed Photograph
(printed from original glass negative )
22 x 18”
$1,700

Echo
Signed Photograph
(printed from original glass negative )
20 x 16.25”
$1,400

Szukalski in Studio
Giclee Print on
Archival Paper
20 x 13”
$150

Szukalski in Park Annunciation

Giclee Print on Archival Paper Signed Photograph
13 x 17” (printed from original glass negative )
$150 25 x 19”
$1,400
Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) fused the movement and energy of Futurism, the emotion of Impres-
sionism and the geometric configurations of Cubism into a single poetic form referred to as “Bent Clas-
sicism.” Szukalski left 1920’s Chicago to return to his native Poland where he was recognized by the
Ministry of Art as the country’s “Greatest Living Artist.” The ravages of World War II destroyed much
of Szukalski’s artwork, thus laying the groundwork for his fall into obscurity and return to the United
States. By the time the artist was rediscovered in southern California in 1972 by publisher Glenn Bray, a
large and masterful body of work had been created and many works were later found in post-war Poland.
A retrospective of Szukalski’s works was exhibited at the Laguna Art Museum in 2001 under the patron-
age of Glenn Bray and the DiCaprio Family. A solo show, The Self-Born, was exhibited at Varnish Fine
Art in 2005, and his work was featured on the cover of Juxtapoz magazine the same year. His works are
on permanent display at the Polish Museum of America in Chicago and the Polish National Museum in
Warsaw and are in numerous private collections.
 ©2012
Varnish Fine Art & Archives Szukalski

Directors:
Jen Rogers & Kerri Stephens

Photography:
Jeff Vaughn, Gaby Wehn, Kerri Stephens

Layout/Design:
Kerri Stephens

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