Tomasz TOBOLEWSKI (born 1973), Antibes 55, 2025

oil, board, 42 x 34 cm, in author's frame: 48 x 40 cm, signed on the back.

Antibes 55 is the date of the suicidal death of painter Nicolas de Stael, who jumped from the balcony of his apartment in Antibes on March 16, 1955.

Tomasz Tobolewski, born in 1973 in Zabrze. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice), diploma in the Gravure Print Studio of Prof. S. Kluska. Academic employee with the rank of Dr.hab. Prof. UŚ.
Winner of awards, among others: Grand Prix at the Dry Point Biennial of Printmaking in Serbia (2011), Grand Prix, ZPAP "Work of the Year" competition (Katowice, 2004), Award, ZPAP "Work of the Year" competition ( Katowice, 2003 ) First Prize, International Biennial of Drawing (Pilsen, 2004). Award of the President of the City of Wroclaw, III International Competition of Drawing. ( Wroclaw , 2006), Prize Funded by the Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw , 9th Triennial of Polish Graphics ( Katowice 2015) , Nomination for the prize of the 10th Triennial of Polish Contemporary Drawing ( Lubaczow 2020), Distinction , 10th International Autumn Art Salon " Homo Quadratus Ostroviensis", ( 2010 BWA, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski ).


Participant of many exhibitions including: POSK Gallary solo exhibition ( London, 2018 ), Triennale of Polish Graphics, BWA Katowice (2015), Salon de L'estampe Contemporaine - Ruel-Malmaison, (France 2006), Laureates of the Daniel Chodowiecki Prize, Akadamia Sztuk Pieknych , (Berlin ,2009 ), International Biennale of Graphics ( Guanlan , China 2009), International Biennale of Drawing ( Skopje, Macedonia , 2012 ), drawing exhibition "First Language" (BWA, Bielsko Biala, 2003), exhibition of young employees of the Institute of Art (Cieszyn, 2003), competition Work of the Year ZPAP (Katowice, 2003 and 2004), Biennale of Graphic Miniatures (Czestochowa, 2004), International Biennale of Drawing (Pilsno, Czech Republic 2004), Drawing Competition im. Andorlie (Nałęczów, 2004), Internationale Mini Print (Sarajevo, 2005).