Mikuláš Medek *

(Prague 1926–1974)
Untitled, 1968, signed and dated Medek 68, oil, enamel on canvas, 120 x 79.5 cm, framed
We thank Adela Procházková for her kind assistance with cataloguing of this lot. The work will be listed in the upcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Mikuláš Medek issued by the Medek Family.

Provenance:
Collection Christoph Wilhelmi, South Germany
Thence by descent to the present owner

Mikuláš Medek describes the process of painting as a direct imprint of
reality without any distance - that is, "no longer a mirror, a testimony, something as if from the other shore, but something that directly realizes the great turmoil and anxiety, something that is directly within him.
The previously optically legible definition of the relation to the world,
is intensified into an optically independent element of the prepared image by the progression to non-figurative expression."
(Mikuláš Medek, Texts, 1995, p. 208 and p. 250)