Adrian GŁĘBOCKI

DISPUTATION OF SAINT CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA WITH PAGAN PHILOSOPHERS
Oil, canvas; 116 x 156 cm
Signed p.d.; ADRYAN GŁĘBOCKI / 1863.
Painting exhibited: TZSP, Warsaw, 1863, described: Tygodnik Ilustrowany r. 1863 no. 209 pp. 375; Kurier Warszawski, r. 1863, no.126, p. 606, exchanged: Wiercińska, Wiercińska J., Catalogue of works exhibited in the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1860-1914, Polish Academy of Sciences Publishing House,Wrocław - Warsaw - Cracow, 1969, p. 361. p. 98
Adrian GŁĘBOCKI
1833 Panki - 1905 Warsaw
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer and educator; studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Ksawery Kaniewski and Rafał Hadziewicz from 1850-1857. After his studies, he worked in a theater painting shop under A. Sachchetti. From 1863 to 1873 he lived in Czestochowa, where he worked as a drawing teacher at a junior high school. In 1873 he settled in Warsaw, teaching drawing at the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, in gymnasiums and at the real school, and also gave private lessons. He collaborated with "Kłosy", "Tygodnik Ilustrowanym", "Biesiada Literacka" and other Warsaw magazines, posting his drawings in them, including - of great iconographic value - depictions of old historic buildings, now often no longer in existence. He wrote articles on art, and published a book, "Patterns of Children's Toys for Cutting from Paper" (1875). Among his paintings are religious paintings painted mostly for churches, portraits, genre and genre-historical scenes. He was the author of cycles of drawings based on the lives of saints (e.g., "St. Eustace the Martyr," "St. Mary Magdalene," "Glory of Mary"). Other cycles include, among others, "Polish Legends." He also made the "Album of Jasna Góra." The artist's paintings can be found, among others, in the National Museum in Warsaw and Krakow, as well as in numerous churches.
Another painting by this artist "Allegory of Spring" was sold at the Ostoya Auction House (Auction 220, 04.03.2023, item 90.
Asking price 50000
Estimate 60000 - 70000