262 - Jiří Kolář, Motýli (Butterflies) with Botticelli, signed collage from 1969

Jiří Kolář, Motýli (Butterflies) with Botticelli, signed collage from 1969 Jiří Kolář, 1914 Protivín - 2002 Prague, Motýli (Butterflies) with Botticelli’s Primavera, collage/colour offset, sheet size 38.5 x 32.5 cm, signed on the reverse, dated (19)69, numbered 81/100, without frame About the artist: Kolář was an artist and political activist. In 1932 he completed his apprenticeship as a joiner and subsequently worked as a baker’s assistant, a night watchman, a waiter and, later, as an editor at the Dílo press in Prague. He produced his first collages in 1934, which were exhibited at the D37 Gallery in Prague in 1937 and at the Mozarteum in 1938. Almost at the same time, with the support of František Halas, he turned his hand to literature. He was a co-founder of the Group 42. During the Prague Spring, he documented a series of originally 67, now 66, collages in his ‘Diary 1968’, which are held at the Neues Museum in Nuremberg. This was followed by his participation in documenta 4 and 6 in Kassel, as well as in the 10th São Paulo Biennial.