CYRIL BOUDA /Organist Budecius with his son/ ORIGINAL 5 colours LITHOGRAPH 1954

Specification  

Continent: #Europa #Czechoslovakia  

Motive: #Budecius with his son #Book illustration of the Pankrác Budecius Kantor, Quasi legenda, of Antonín Sova (26 February 1864 – 16 August 1928) who was a Czech poet and the director of Prague Municipal Library.

Artist’s Main Feature: #Born in an artistic family in Prague CYRIL BOUDA (1901–1984), academic painter, graphic and book illustrator, appears to be imbued with a spirit of the art from his childhood. His father and mother were painters and his brother deals with painting too. Bouda was a godson of the prominent Czech painter and a founder of Czech book illustration Mikuláš Aleš. Bouda’s main teachers were the legendary Czech painters František Kysela and Max Švabinský. Bouda belong to the most famous Czech books decorators having illustrated more than 800 books. He had his original distinctive style of illustration which very quickly matured as in its form so in his ability to contemplate an idea of the author to complete the text with illustration. Bouda joined together a perfect drawing truth with fine graphic technic.    

Subject: The allegorical view of an organist and his son, the first is the personage of the book named Budecius shows a narrative power of the artist and his feeling for the details. The  5 colours lithograph creates a romantic atmosphere and lyric delicacy.

It is an illustration for the book named Pankrác Budecius Kantor, Quasi legenda (1954), of Antonín Sova (1864–1928) who was a Czech poet and the director of Prague Municipal Library.

The name of lithograph is «Budecius with his son».

 Age: #1954

Medium: # litho engraving with 5 colours lithography

Location: #Czechoslovakia

Signature: in print in the left corner

Originality: Original coloured lithograph 

Size (in mm): 

The overall size is ca. 185 x 120

The image size is the same

Size (in inches): 

The overall size is ca. 7,2 x 4,7 

The image size is the same

Condition:

Grading: Good 

Corners: Good

Writing to back No
Writing to front: pencil signed by the author in the left corner and in print in the right corner

Stains on front: No 

Stains on back: No

Creases or bends: No 

Tears: No 

Pin holes: No

Short biography of the artist: #Born in an artistic family in Kladno CYRIL BOUDA (1901–1984), academic painter, graphic and book illustrator, appears to be imbued with a spirit of the art from his childhood. His father and mother were painters and his brother deals with painting too. Bouda was a godson of the prominent Czech painter and a founder of Czech book illustration Mikuláš Aleš. Between 1919–1923 he seriously studied landscape painting at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where his teacher was František Kysela. Thereafter he continued his art education at the famous Graphic School in the Fine Art Academy was leading at that time by the legendary founder of Czech graphic Max Švabinský. As an academical painter Bouda made more than 100 canvasses, as a one of the key person of Czech illustration he illustrated more than 800 books in his original distinctive style; as an etcher he made more than 1000 free graphic plates. Moreover he was a creator of the design of a post stamp, exlibris, theatre scenes and stained-glass window and in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. More than 30 years he was a professor at the Charles University in Prague. He was a member of the Hollar Association of Czech Graphic Artists, whose members were and are professional artists of the highest calibre and in the Umělecká beseda, a Czech artists’ forum, bringing together creative artists in literature, music and fine art. Bouda was also an emeritus artist (1961), national artist (1976)