Jean-Bernard Kazmierczak (better known as JBK) generously welcomed the Nice Premium editorial team for an interview. A great collector and golf enthusiast for over 30 years, he has cultivated a sumptuous art collection in the world of golf, which is his great passion. We thank him for dedicating these few hours to us.
Following the interview, we toured his apartment to discover his collection. He provided us with reproductions of some paintings along with a brief description, which you can find below.
Boutet de Monvel: this watercolor is dated 1903.
E. Aubain: oil on wood, signed within the frame. Golf de Cannes Mandelieu around 1910.
Cannes La Roubine – À la Plaine Laval: watercolor (unsigned) dated November 15, 1936.
Nice: luggage label, circa 1910.
Olton: period photograph (1910). In the center, the great champion Arnaud Massy, the only Frenchman to have won the British Open (in 1907). He is here at the Olton Golf Club.
Valescure: watercolor monogrammed BB (likely Bentall, first Secretary of the Valescure golf), dated 1911.
Valescure: painting by Viktor Cleve depicting Grand Duke Michael and Countess of Torby.
Pau 1888: watercolor attributed to Thomas Hodge. One of the oldest views of the Pau golf course.
Boyer at the Nice Golf Club around 1930. Oil by Viktor Cleve, 2017. Here is just one major element of the canvas.
From left to right, the characters represented are: a caddie, Hay-Gordon (Honorary Secretary of the club from 1903 to his death in 1933), Auguste Boyer in follow-through, four spectators, the Baron de Bellet (President of the Club), and a spectator.
A diptych by Sacha Sosno “Le Driving” and “La Sortie de Bunker”
For le Driving, the drawing of the ball is glued onto the lithograph.
For la Sortie de Bunker, sand has been glued on the lithograph with a brush.
For your information, Sosno is an artist from the École de Nice. We all know his “Tête Carrée” at the Louis Nucéra library. His grand theory in painting and sculpture is “oblitération”: “it’s the viewer who makes the work; the artist hides the essential”.
