VÁCLAV FIALA/Best Regards in New Year 1966PF/Houri&Sumptuous Feast/LITHOGRAPHY+Exlibris

Specification  

Continent/Location: #Europa #Fantasy 

Motiv: #Houri and Exotic Feast  #Romantic East Woman 

Subject: The eastern Women as a Houri wishes best regard in New Year 1966

Artist’s Main Feature: #In Prague born professional artists of the highest calibre VÁCLAV FIALA (1896-1980) is reported to be a Senior of Czech Graphic Art who devoted to this kind of art 60 years of his life. It is a fantastic long life in this art in Czech. He opted unambiguously for realism to strive from the start to express reality of ordinary or exotic lands as he objectively saw or imagined it. He was a graduate of the famous Graphic School of Max Švabinský being his favourite pupil. Fiala was a member of the Hollar Association of Czech Graphic Artists. He mustered all known graphic methods especially print in intaglio, copper engraving, aquatint, wood engraving and lithography.   

Age: #1966 PF

Medium: #lithography original

Signature: in print/ pencil signed 

Size (in cm): 

The image size is ca. 210 x 160 mm

Size (in inch): 

The image size is ca. 8,65 x 4 inches

Condition:

Grading: Good
Corners: Perfect

Writing to back: No

Writing to front: in print

Stains on front: No

Stains on back: No
Creases or bends: No

Tears: No
Pin holes: No

Artist: Born in Prague VÁCLAV FIALA (1896-1983) was a prominent representative of academic Czech fine art, who dealt successful with books decoration and engraving. Moreover he was a typographer and curator of exhibitions and an original Czech writer. His early fine artistic romantic stimulus he said to receive from landscapes of the Crimea and in Ukraine Kharkov where his family lived constantly after migrating from Prague. He graduated from the privat painter school in Vienna (1910-1911) before attending the high artistic school of Kharkov (1911-1915) where Ladislav Trakal was his teacher. In the war time he was a student of the Russian Fine Art Academy in Sankt-Petersburg (1915–1916) where he was lucky, among his teachers were such Russian painters as Makovsky, V. Belyayev, Tvorozhnikov, Zaleman but his studies incomplete because he was drafted into the Russian army in Czechoslovak legion. With his freund Stanislav K. Neumann he spend 8 months in Elbasan in Albania to illustrate late with his drawings a memoire of Neumann. He voyaged through Asian Russia, Siberian and Manchuria in Northeast China. In 1919 he attended the university in Vladivostok and at the same time working as a teacher of drawing in the local female gymnasium. His first experience in lithography was Lenin’s portrait. At the end of 1920 he made with his freund Russian poet and artist Dmitry Burliuk whose sister was Fiala’s wife a voyage through whole Japan to attend Tokio, Osaka, Kyoto, Jokohama where he took place some exhibitions and in the Nikakway exhibition of Japan futurists. The winter of 1920 he passed on the Bonin Islands known as the Ogasawara Islands to write late in Prague (1927) his book «Ogasawara» illustrated with his wood engravings. In July 1921 he launched his ascent of Mount Fuji with Burliuk. He returned home in Prague in 1922 after a long voyages through China, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden, Port-Said. In year 1923 he visited Jugoslawien. This voyage was followed by studies at the Prague Fine Art Academy from which he graduated in 1926. In the time of studying at the famous Graphic School of Max Švabinský he tried to realise his impressions of the Far East and Asia using all media such as wood engravings, lithographies, etchings. Simultaneously he took steps to receive new artistic impressions from the beautifulness of Czech provincial landscapes. After graduating of the Prague Fine Art Academy he received a state grant to pass two years (1927-1928) in Paris where he participated in the exhibition of the Salon d’ hiver and received an award of ones.