Lot 143

Miroslav Vystrčil (1924 - 2014) RECUMBENT NUDE

The Recumbent nude (also Recumbent) is one of four plaster sculptures that Miroslav Vystrčil presented in May 1957 at the Young Art exhibition. The exhibition became the cradle of the art association Máj 57. The statue of the Recumbent is depicted in period photographs at the head of one of the halls, although it is not in the exhibition catalog. While we observe abstraction in the direction of cubization in Palcr's work and also work of Chlupáč, Miroslav Vystrčil stretches his sculptures into round shapes, models them smoothly and rounds them harmoniously. Vystrčil's generation, strong in number and quality, went through the study in a very complicated period and had only a very short time to exhibit. In the 1960s, the Máj 57 group significantly enriched the Czech art scene qualitatively, and although Miroslav Vystrčil was not very interested in presenting and promoting his work, his contribution to preserving the development of Czech art in the most difficult times of communist persecution cannot be neglected.

Published by: GAVU Cheb, Miroslav Vystrčil. Retrospective, 2017. p. 11 and 25.