Lot 95

Jaroslav Veris Zamazal (1900 - 1983) RECUMBENT NUDE

Jaroslav Veris, alias Zamazal, came from a medical family. He received his first artistic education at the private school of Vojtěch Doležil in Brno, then continued at the Prague Academy under Jan Preisler, Vratislav Nechleba and Karel Krattner. He graduated in 1923 and the following year went to Paris, from where he returned in 1938. In Paris he attended the Académie Julian and private lectures by František Kupka. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. He had a solo exhibition in 1928 at Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. He spent the years of occupation and World War II in several concentration camps, the period after 1948 in the displeasure of the ruling regime, Despite being a member of the Purkyně Artists Association and participating in many exhibitions, his work almost fell into oblivion and has been newly commemorated with a large exhibition from his estate organized by Arthouse Hejtmánek in 2019. Veris's work is multifaceted and characterized by a sensitivity to new currents in art as well as an ability to interpret them in a personal way. A small painting of the Reclining Female Nude from 1926 reflects the contemporary trend towards neo-classicism, civility and the new materiality.