Lot 174

Miroslav Vystrčil (1924 - 2014) LYING WOMAN

Around 1959 Miroslav Vystrčil abandoned the classical figure and returned to it only in abstract form. He replaced modelling with metal and welding, descriptive details with clean and simple lines. From 1967 he was a member of the artistic group Concretists Club. From the same period, in connection with commissions for public space, the artist developed a new morphology close to abstract organic structure. The offered work Lying Woman in Beech is part of the collection of the Gallery of Fine Art in Náchod. A reminder of Vystrčil's work, which enriched Czech post-war art history, was made possible through retrospective exhibitions in 2017 in Cheb and 2019 in Náchod. For several decades, the work was part of the artistically rendered garden of the artist's studio in Prague.

Ref.: GAVU Cheb, Miroslav Vystrčil. Retrospective, 2017. P. 42.