Henry Orlik b. 1947
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A DANCER - Ltd Edition Print
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ALIVE AND DEAD PEOPLE NYC - Ltd Edition Print
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ANTICHRIST - Ltd Edition Print
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BATTLEMENT NYC - Ltd Edition Print
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BEAUTY AND SHARKS - Ltd Edition Print
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BEVERLY HILLS - Ltd Edition Print
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BRIGITTE BARDOT - Ltd Edition Print
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CALIFORNIAN SPHINX- Ltd Edition Print
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CANNON BALLOONS - Ltd Edition Print
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CELTIC SYMBOL: WIN OR LOSE - Ltd Edition Print
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CIRCUS NYC 1984 (COLOUR) - Ltd Edition Print
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CIRCUS NYC 1984 - Ltd Edition Print
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CONFUSION - Ltd Edition Print
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DEFEAT (AEROPLANE OVER LA) - Ltd Edition Print
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DON'T VOTE - Ltd Edition Print
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DREAM - Ltd Edition Print
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EASTER LADDER - Ltd Edition Print
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END OF AN AFFAIR - Ltd Edition Print
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ESCAPE - Ltd Edition Print
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ESCAPE II Sold
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ESCAPE II - Ltd Edition Print
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EVOLUTION - Ltd Edition Print
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EXPECTATIONS - Ltd Edition Print
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FAIRGROUND - Ltd Edition Print
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FIRE - Ltd Edition Print
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FORGOTTEN LOST HOPES, 1984 Sold
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FORGOTTEN LOST HOPES - Ltd Edition Print
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FRIENDS - Ltd Edition Print
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GRABOWSKI - Ltd Edition Print
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GRAND CENTRAL STATION (BLACK & WHITE) - Ltd Edition Print
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GREEN FOUNTAIN - Ltd Edition Print
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GREEN STILETTO - Ltd Edition Print
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GROWTH - Ltd Edition Print
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HENPECKED - Ltd Edition Print
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HOPING FOR RECONCILIATION - Ltd Edition Print
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JUNGLE - Ltd Edition Print
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KITE - Ltd Edition Print
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LA - Ltd Edition Print
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LAND AND SEA - Ltd Edition Print
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LANDLORD - Ltd Edition Print
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LEGACY OF A GUTTER NEWSPAPER - Ltd Edition Print
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LOST AND REMEMBERED - Ltd Edition Print
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Lot 10. FIRE, 1974 Sold
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Lot 11. CONFUSION Sold
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Lot 13. WINTER
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Lot 14. STUDY FOR ANTICHRIST - FEMALE Sold
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Lot 15. STUDY FOR ANTICHRIST - MALE Sold
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Lot 16. WAT 9, 1966
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Lot 17. MERRY GO ROUND Sold
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Lot 18. GROWTH
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Lot 19. RUINS Sold
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Lot 20. SUMMER LANDSCAPE Sold
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Lot 22. ESCAPE Sold
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Lot 23. ARCHES, 1987 Sold
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Lot 24. THE LYING PLANT Sold
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Lot 25. SCORPION STUDY 2 Sold
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Lot 26. EMBRACE Sold
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Lot 27. DUNES Sold
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Lot 28. HACIENDA, 1966 Sold
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Lot 29. EYE HATCHING Sold
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Lot 3. CELTIC SYMBOL: WIN OR LOSE Sold
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Lot 30. TIME Sold
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Lot 4. THE LANDLORD Sold
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Lot 5. GRABOWSKI Sold
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Lot 6. RESTING AFTER WORK STUDY, 1974 Sold
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Lot 7. SOLDIERS
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Lot 8. MARTIN LUTHER KING Sold
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Lot 9. FIGA Sold
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LOVERS - Ltd Edition Print
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MARTIN LUTHER KING - Ltd Edition Print
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MERRY GO ROUND - Ltd Edition Print
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MOTHER FLIGHT - Ltd Edition Print
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NEW YORK INTERIOR I - Ltd Edition Print
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NEW YORK INTERIOR II - Ltd Edition Print
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NY SKYSCRAPERS - Ltd Edition Print
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NYC SKYSCRAPERS (PENCIL WITH COLOUR) - Ltd Edition Print
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OASIS - Ltd Edition Print
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PARACHUTE - Ltd Edition Print
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PEOPLE NYC - Ltd Edition Print
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PEOPLE NYC - Ltd Edition Prints
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PIMP AND PROSTITUTE - Ltd Edition Print
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RAINBOW - Ltd Edition Print
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REST - Ltd Edition Print
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RETURN BACKWARDS - Ltd Edition Print
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SCORPION STUDY 3 Sold
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SCORPION STUDY 4£ 1,250.00
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SCORPION STUDY 7 Sold
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SELF PORTRAIT - Ltd Edition Print
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SELF PORTRAIT RED SUN - Ltd Edition Print
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SHEEP HERDING - Ltd Edition Print
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STILL LIFE Sold
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SUMMER - Ltd Edition Print
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SURREAL LANDSCAPE - Ltd Edition Print
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THE CAGE - Ltd Edition Print
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THE COCKEREL - Ltd Edition Print
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THE END - Ltd Edition Print
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THE EYE ON NEW YORK CITY - Ltd Edition Print
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THE GOLDEN CALF - Ltd Edition Prints
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THE LYING PLANT - Ltd Edition Print
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THE PARTING - Ltd Edition Print
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THE THREE PHILOSOPHERS - Ltd Edition Print
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TIME - Ltd Edition Print
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WIN OR LOSE - Ltd Edition Print
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WIND - Ltd Edition Print
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WINOS IN CENTRAL PARK NYC - Ltd Edition Print
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WINTER - Ltd Edition Print
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WORKERS ROLLING INTO NEW YORK (BLACK & WHITE) - Ltd Edition Print
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WORKERS ROLLING INTO NEW YORK (COLOUR) - Ltd Edition Print
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YELLOW GALLEON - Ltd Edition Print
Early Years
Henry Orlik was born in Ankum, Germany two years after the end of the Second World War, in 1947. His father, Jozef Orlik (1923-1998) was Polish and in the Allied Armed Forces under British Command during the war. His mother, Lucyna was of White Russian (Belarussian) origin and amidst the horrors of Nazi invasions had been deported for slave labour and put in a labour camp in Ankum, Lower Saxony, where she worked as a farm labourer. Jozef was part of the Polish forces who spearheaded the advance after D Day in the spring of 1945 that liberated the occupied countries of Northern France, Belgium, Holland and finally in May 1945 into Lower Saxony. The Orlik family came to England in 1948 and were initially itinerant, moving between different camps.
In early 1958 they arrived at Fairford Camp on the fringes of the Cotswolds, the largest of the many Polish Resettlement Camps operational from 1947 to 1958. They were here for two years and then were transferred to Daglingworth Camp in Gloucestershire. The young Orlik was sent to a Polish Boarding school in Hereford from the age of seven to twelve. The family stayed at Daglingworth until 1959, when, like many Polish families, they moved to Swindon.
In 1963 Orlik enrolled at Swindon Art College where he studied for three years, continuing his studies at Gloucestershire College or Art, Cheltenham between 1969 and 1972.
Career and Exhibitions 1970s
Orlik was already making a name for himself by 1971 when he showed People (gouache) at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1971. In 1972 he had a highly successful one man show at the world-renowned Surrealist Art Centre, Acoris, in Brook Street, London W1 when he was only twenty-five, from which all his paintings sold. An article in Apollo magazine stated, Orlik ‘has seized on a surrealistic idiom to display his hermetic vision of the irrational. Colours are muted and unearthly, giving a curious pallor to his enigmatic images, which are conveyed by innuendo and oblique implication. Intertwined female figures writhe in and out of one another in grotesque convoluted embrace culminating in a wild tangle of hair. Contrived theatrical stage sets occupied by the standard unexpected juxtapositioning of surrealistic devices are subject-matter for many pictures, as well as macabre landscapes. Orlik’s technical manner is to work over the surface with meticulous care, using minute strokes of a fine brush. The result is one of monotonous regularity that depersonalizes the surface but contributes to the eerie quality haunting his imagery.’
A review for the same exhibition in Art & Antiques magazine describes Orlik drawing much of his inspiration from ‘his heritage’ which was ‘regularly charged by frequent visits to his homeland of Byelo Russia, on the Polish- Russian border’. It continues: ‘His works – in both oil and acrylic, one of them on glass – are technically brilliant and his observations, while cynical, scarcely lack humour. Despite the dream-like quality imparted by a network of infantile squiggles which characterise his paintings, Mr. Orlik firmly rejects any label. “Surreal?” he said, taking a long look around the walls of the gallery. “They say I’m surrealistic. I just paint. It’s a lucky break, though, if it wasn’t for this show I’d still be teaching.” At his private view last week 80 percent of the pictures were snapped up. It would be false modesty on Mr. Orlik’s part if he attributed that solely to luck – and I don’t think his publicity people will be referring to him as unknown for very much longer.’
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Editions Exhibition
The Little Gallery, 1-2 The Parade, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 1NE 26 Sep - 18 Nov 2024 -
Henry Orlik: Cosmos of Dreams Part Two
The Little Gallery, 1-2 The Parade, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 1NE 23 Aug - 17 Sep 2024THIS AUCTION HAS CLOSED Henry Orlik and his advisors have been positively overwhelmed with the number of visitors that have travelled so far and visited the second selling exhibition at...Read more -
Henry Orlik: Cosmos of Dreams
Maas Gallery, 6 Duke Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6BN 9 - 20 Aug 2024In 1974 Henry Orlik’s (b.1947) work was included alongside great Surrealist artists such as René Magritte, Yves Tanguy and Salvador Dali in Surrealist Masters (Acoris, The Surrealist Art Centre, Brook...Read more