Black Figure with Letters
Jirí Balcar
1967
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View on museum website →Medium
ink and watercolor
Dimensions
image: 32.8 x 22.5 cm (12 15/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Anne and Jacques Baruch Collection
Accession Number
2002.50.27
About the Artist
Jirí Balcar
Jiří Balcar (1929–1968) was a Czech graphic artist, painter, illustrator, typographer, and poster designer whose brief career bridged socialist realism's constraints and emerging international modernism in postwar Czechoslovakia. Born in Kolín to physician Emilian Balcar, whose 1945 suicide profoundly impacted the young artist, Balcar graduated from Kolín Gymnasium in 1948. He briefly studied art ...