Lot 211

Josef Jíra (1929 - 2005) REUNION

The painting originating from the studio of Josef Jíra with the inscription of his wife Ivana belongs to the mature work of the 1980s. The paintings were created as a result of the excited experience of internal disputes and conflicts, and in this sense they are full of tension and romantic drama. As he wrote about himself: "I am a person who has known joys and sorrows in my life, committed sins and tried to do good deeds. I lived comfortably and I also know the depth of the sewer in which so many people drowned..." The family tree of his evocative paintings of rhythmic handwriting and disturbingly resonant colors goes back to the visionaries of Expressionism. In the paintings in which he incorporates the motifs of his childhood, he develops a method of simultaneous association and permeation distant events.