Adrian GŁĘBOCKI, THE DISPUTE OF THE HOLY CATARINE OF ALEXANDRIA WITH THE POGAINS, ANTIC PHILOSOPHIES, 1863

Oil, canvas; 116 x 156 cm
Signed p.d.; ADRYAN GŁĘBOCKI / 1863.
Image exhibited: TZSP, Warsaw, 1863, described: Tygodnik Ilustrowany r. 1863 no. 209 p. 375; Kurier Warszawski, r. 1863, no.126, p. 606, mentioned: Wiercińska, Wiercińska J., Catalogue of works exhibited in the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1860-1914, Publishing House of the Polish Academy of Sciences,Wrocław - Warsaw - Cracow, 1969, p. 361. p. 98
Asking price 105000
Estimate 130000 - 150000
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

St. Catherine of Alexandria was born around 282 AD in Alexandria, Egypt. She was the daughter of King Kustos. According to tradition, she was a wealthy and educated Christian woman from Alexandria who took a vow of chastity. She suffered martyrdom at the age of 18. She openly criticized the persecution of Christians and the conduct of Emperor Maxentius or Maximinus, whose wife she converted to Christianity. The death sentence came after a religious disputation in which Catherine proved more proficient than fifty non-Christian sages, converting some of them. Unsatisfied with this turn of events, the emperor sentenced Catherine to death after torture; the breaking of the wheel was abandoned after an angel destroyed the instrument of torture, and the sentence was carried out by beheading.
St. Catherine's Monastery - the oldest of the Christian monasteries in existence today. Located in the narrow valley of Wadi-al-Dajr at the foot of Mount St. Catherine and Mount Sinai, on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, Placed with the surrounding area on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Built in the 6th century.