Lot 245

Jiří Anderle (1936) VANITAS V

The etching from the series Vanitas - Transience belongs to a collection sought after by collectors, to which Jiří Anderle returned repeatedly. In a complex and elaborate cycle, a motif that combines virtuoso work with composition, the fragile beauty of flowers and fresh fruit, and the transformation of the human face through the lens of relentless time, which pulsates at the bottom edge in the rhythm of the human heartbeat, resonates. Jiří Anderle is currently one of the most important Czech graphic artists, and the role of man, be it mythological, artistic, historical or social, has repeatedly come to the center of his work.