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Henryk Musiałowicz, also known as Henryk Telesfor Musialowicz, was a painter, draughtsman and graphic artist. Born in Gniezno in 1914, he died in Warsaw in 2015. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and graduated there in 1939; his teachers included Feliks Szczęsny Kowarski and Leonard Pękalski. His early works take the experiences of war and the destruction of Warsaw as their subjects. A change in his painting came after his trip to the Netherlands in 1956–1957.
In his compositions, the human silhouette forms the central sign; it is surrounded by ornaments with a texture that is both coarse and sensuous. Some works contain gold or silver filings embedded in the paint layer.
In the 1970s, he turned to nature and created, among other works, the cycles “Animal Landscape” and “Birth of the Earth”. The cycles “Reminiscences”, “Family” and “Epitaph”, by contrast, address existential questions. Towards the end of the period described, his spatial compositions increasingly bring together distinct elements; some are at times intensely polychromatic and suggest impressive totems.
According to the biographical account, he took part in more than one hundred solo exhibitions and 250 group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad. His works were also shown, among other places, in Geneva, Paris, New York, London, Rome and Toronto. In 2002, a retrospective exhibition was devoted to him at the National Museum in Poznań.
This profile brings together identity references for Henryk Musiałowicz and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
10 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky, Piguet. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
encre sur papier monté sur carton
Sans titre
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Catalogue period : 2025-03-06 — 2025-03-19
Published result : 220 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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encre et collage sur papier
Catalogue period : 2024-09-12 — 2024-09-25
Published result : 850 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Sans titre
encre sur papier monté sur carton
Catalogue period : 2024-09-12 — 2024-09-25
Published result : 400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Ink on paper
Sans titre
encre sur papier
Catalogue period : 2024-09-12 — 2024-09-25
Published result : 650 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Sans titre
encre sur papier monté sur carton
Catalogue period : 2024-09-12 — 2024-09-25
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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encre sur papier marouflé sur panneau
Catalogue period : 2022-06-01 — 2022-06-15
Published result : 1500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1500–2500
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Mixed media on paper
Z cyklu "Pejzaz" (Aus dem Zyklus "Landschaft").
Mischtechnik auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2021-05-07
Published result : 4200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1800
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Mixed media on paper
Z cyklu "Portret z wyobrazni" (Aus dem Zyklus "Porträt aus der Vorstellung").
Mischtechnik auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2021-05-07
Published result : 3300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1800
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Mixed media on paper
"Portrait imaginaire".
Mischtechnik auf Papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1600
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Komposition mit Büste.
Mischtechnik auf Papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 1800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
