signed in pencil bottom right F. Gross 42, drawing, pencil, paper, 11 × 17,5 cm,
mount, frame, glassFrantišek Gross, a founding member of the famous Group 42, is one of the leading
personalities of Czech painting of the last century. He was based on the cubist
morphology and surrealist poetics. He identified with the group's focus on
on the representation of big city life, inspired by the turbulent technical
and scientific progress. He was always interested in the evolution of the world around him, whose
the positive and negative aspects of which he could accurately depict. The most important period
of his work is considered by experts and collectors to be the most important period of his career. After
the 1950s, when he succumbed to a certain extent to the so-called socialist
realism, in the 1960s to 1980s he achieved new
creative heights. Then he inventively continued his beginnings,
He was once again able to react sensitively to urban changes and technical breakthroughs.
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auction 66
66th auction of Fine Art, Antiques, Design and Glass
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