Lot 222

František Bukeš (1962) PRENATAL SYNTHESIS II.

František Bukeš was initially influenced by surrealist work, but later he turned to the imagination of Vladimír Boudník, Jaroslav Šerých and especially Mikuláš Medek. He writes about his painting, "Prenatáč" is an attempt at a self-portrait, a kind of my Mona Lisa, and at the same time an image that went through the Velvet Revolution. I started painting it sometime before the seventeenth of November and finished it after the keys jingled. On that day we had a party in the concierge's flat and drank nine champagnes. The painting was still wet and hanging over the couch. The exuberance built up until the lapiduch Petr (a renowned publisher after the revolution) waved his hand behind him and blurred his eye. At that moment I sobered up, packed up the injured painting, went down to the boiler room where I had my studio, and spent the rest of the morning repairing the eye, which eventually looked more vivid than the original one..."