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Oil on paper. Signed lower right: “Molnar”. Karol Molnar studied at the Ukrainian Academy in Prague under Professor Jan Ivan Kulec, and later under professor Jakub Obrovsky at the Prague Academy of Fine Art (1932–1938). In 1938 he received a scholarship residence in Paris to study under Frantisek Kupka, with whom he forged a lasting friendship resulting in many return trips to France. During World War II he joined the Czechoslovak military units in France and the United Kingdom, where he was enlisted in the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade, but he continued to create, which earned him the title of "war chronicler." He also painted landscapes of the region around Prague, female nudes, and still lifes. The height of his work includes unique abstract works inspired by music, which he created while studying under Frantisek Kupka.