Jiři Krejčí Watercolor and Ink Illustration for Marie Mervatova Children's Story

Item Details

Jiři Krejčí (Czech; 1899 – 1976)
Untitled (“Zázračný Lékař” or “Miraculous Doctor”), circa 1947
Watercolor painting with ink on paper
Unsigned
Includes paper to verso featuring Marie Mervatova’s story Zázračný Lékař, for which this painting was submitted as an illustration

Jiři Krejčí was a Czech painter, illustrator, writer, and art critic. Krejčí attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied under the famous Czech painter Max Švabinský. A proponent of the Czech Social Democratic Party, much of Krejčí’s artwork and writings espoused this political ideology, even after its abolishment under Nazi German occupation and the subsequent absorption of the reformed party into the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia following World War Two. Krejčí famously wrote for the Czech periodicals, People’s Justice, Weekly Variety, and Globoscope, and is perhaps best known for his 1948 treatise Hovory o Obrazech (Discourses on Pictures). Today, Jiři Krejčí’s artwork belongs to numerous public and private collections across Europe.

Condition

- minor scuffing and accretions to paint and paper; scratching, scuffing, and minor accretions to frame.

Dimensions

- measurements of frame; sight measures 8.25" W x 11.25" H.

Item #

ITMG449256