Lot 141

Zbyněk Sekal (1923 - 1998) UNTITLED

Sekal was a member of the Sixties generation of Central European modernist artists. His oeuvre spans the period from the late 1930s/early 1940s to 1997, when he was no longer able to work just a few short months before his death. As an artist who was fully part of the period unfolding after the end of World War II, when he found youthful inspiration in Surrealism, he is a part of the broad post-avantgarde movement. However, he did not completely identify with any movement, tendencies or groups, and remained a major independent figure. After studying at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague under Professor František Tichý, he soon was among the most interesting Czech artists of the 1950s and 60s. He defected in the late 1960s and from 1970 he lived in Vienna, where his work underwent further remarkable development.