Reynek Bohuslav 1892–1971

Pastorale -12 pcs, 1947

12 pcs, drypoint, paper, frame, museum glass, 10 × 7 cm / 8,5 × 11,5 cm, signed lower right Reynek, volume 14, published by M. Pegrassi in Prague in an edition of 160 copies, printed by V. Vokolek, Pardubice, 1947
The majority of Bohuslav Reynek's extraordinary graphic work was created in the author's relatively mature age from the 1950s onwards in seclusion farm in Petrkov in the Highlands. Graphic sheets, dry needles or etchings small formats contained concentrated statements, the motif of which were often biblical scenes or simple scenes from the farm and its surroundings with nature and animals. Christian scenes and stories became in Reynek's rendition primarily human, intimately experienced events that the personal level of man. Close association and coexistence with animals, cats, goats and sheep, which in Reynek's letters play the role of the beings closest humans, show man's age-old belonging to nature and also refer to Christian symbolism. The effect of Reynek's graphic letters is enhanced by by the representation of light, which comes as if from within the scene and illuminates its surroundings. together