TOPOLSKI CHRONICLE
 Edition: No.2 Vol. I  1953
Version: 1 Sheet Double Sided
Size: H 46cm x W 58cm
Price: £400.00

 Side 1

Side 2

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The Chronicles

Feliks Topolski’s Chronicles, inspired by the broadsheets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were produced largely single-handedly by the artist himself, using a printing press in his own studio. These extraordinary images illustrated for several decades what Joyce Carey rightly described as “the most brilliant record we have of a contemporary scene, as seized by a contemporary mind”.

The chronicles are glowing with visual vitality; pictures and prose jostle each other on the rough brown paper, bristling with comment and observation about the people, politics and events of the time. An original broadsheet came out twenty-four times a year, each with its own unique identity but all-the-while maintaining Feliks’  unmistakable graphic style, satirical humour and compelling subject matter. Feliks had “a mania for drawing ’in action’ (never redrawing)” and thus, the images you see here, arose from an abundance of on-the-spot sketches, printed on rough “butcher” paper, using, at first, an old pedal machine by a young Polish couple, Kystyna and Czeslaw Bednarczyk. Throughout the years the Chronicles grew larger and ever more elaborate in scope, content and size.

Topolski’s Chronicles contain over 2300 drawings, depicting his interpretation of the many current affairs of the time. They not only examplify the constantly productive versatility of Topolski’s draughtmanship, the universality of his interests, and the exuberant acuity of his vision, but they also demonstrate the artist’s eternal fascination and concern for public life and universal events rather than private issues.

* There are a limited number of the Chronicles available for sale. Depending on the rarity and size the Chronicles vary in price from £75 -  £1.000.
* Images are printed (in most cases) on both sides and are usually (but not always) a sheet measuring 58.5cm wide by 46cm high and folded to make a final issue size of 29.25cm wide by 46cm high. The longest or highest size of the Chronicles can be up to 2 metres.

TOPOLSKI CHRONICLE
Edition: No.9-12 Vol. XII  1964
Version: 1 Sheet Double Sided
Size: H 116cm x W 92cm
Price: £300.00