The Kapists. The Joy and the Torment of Colour

December 5, 2024 - February 15, 2025

The current exhibition presents works by seven Polish artists from the Krzysztof Musiał collection: Józef Pankiewicz, Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa, Józef Czapski, Piotr Potworowski, Artur Nacht-Samborski and Zygmunt Waliszewski. Those were the most prominent of the dozen or so students from the Cracow Academy of Art, who in September 1924 spontaneously decided to leave for Paris in order to continue their studies in France. They followed their professor Józef Pankiewicz in their quest to discover French and international art, treasures of the Louvre and the beauty of Provencal landscape bathed in the southern light, which they would love to paint so much. They called themselves “Paris Committee” (later referred to as Kapists) and have become the best recognisable group of artists on the Polish 20th century art scene.
The exhibition is accompanied by a substantial Polish-English catalogue (200 pages and as many illustrations) and it brings to a close this centennial Kapists anniversary and sums up the several exhibitions devoted to the Kapists’ art organised at the aTAK Gallery over the last fifteen years.

Curator: Jerzy Wojciechowski

• Self-Portrait with Brushes, 1909 Self-Portrait with Brushes, 1909
• Painter and a Model, circa 1930 Painter and a Model, circa 1930
• Apples, 1967 Apples, 1967
• Irises, 1957 Irises, 1957
• Landscape from Tuscany, 1958 Landscape from Tuscany, 1958
• Still Life with a Vase Still Life with a Vase
• French Landscape, 1925 French Landscape, 1925
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