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Scratch drawing with graphite on special layered paper, housed in a protective wooden case. Signed lower center: "Adriena Šimotová 86" This large-format work by Adriena Šimotová, a rare sight on the market, dates from the pinnacle of her career and is a highly prestigious expression prized by collectors and galleries alike. Throughout the 1980s, Šimotová experimented with paper. Her best works, which reflect love, pain, faith and hope, were made at the end of this period. She expressed transience and fleetingness in subtle, perforated, multilayer paper form, earning her attention on the international scene in the 1990s (Vienna, Paris, Salzburg). This delicate, subtle work captures the human object through tissue paper, portraying friends, family or herself in abstract self-portraits through pigment to create a direct bodily trace of the depicted subject. Šimotová studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design under Professor Josef Kaplický, and in the 1960s she was a member of the UB 12 art group with Jiří John, Václav Boštík, Věra Janoušková and Vladimír Janoušek. From 1990 she started to travel to work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and lecture abroad. The works of this major Czech painter and graphic artist are represented in the Albertina and mumok in Vienna, Bibliotheque National and Centre Pompidou in Paris, and in Florence, Geneva, Washington D.C., Chicago and many other galleries and private collections. PROVENANCE / Galerie de France, Paris; Jiří Švestka Gallery, Prague. LITERATURE / Brunclík, Pavel. Adriena Šimotová: retrospektiva. Prague: Galerie Pecka, 2001. EXHIBITIONS / Adriena Šimotová: Retrospective, National Gallery in Prague, Trade Fair Palace, Prague (2001); Adriena Šimotová, Galerie de France, Paris (1991).