DE-6
1965
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View on museum website →Medium
drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 24.6 x 16.6 cm (9 11/16 x 6 9/16 in.) sheet: 44.7 x 37.6 cm (17 5/8 x 14 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacques Baruch Gallery in honor of Harold Joachim
Accession Number
1984.9.1
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 ...