Evé vdléné jéji [The old bride with her]. 1942.
Original collage signed and dated lower right, captioned upper right (41,6 x 25,4 cm).
Superb and large original collage signed by Czech surrealist Karel Teige.
Made with photographs cut out of magazines, it shows a young woman sitting next to a wooden mannequin who is passing the bar around her neck.
A major representative of the Czech avant-garde, and designer in 1926 of the famous book ABCDA with Vitezslav Nevzal, for which he produced the typography and photomontages, Karel Teige (1900-1951) produced, from 1934 to his death, numerous collages in which the female presence is articulated in landscapes.
(See Mark Hearld, Karel Teige, Photomontaged Dreams, Landscape and the female nude in Teige's collages in Central Europe Revue: the female body is used not as a subject, but "rather the raw material, the grammar from which Teige makes lyrical or political or emotional statements.")
He was featured in the exhibition The Poet as Artist.
"Modern painting reads like poetry, poetry reads like modern painting" (Karel Teige)
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