Reynek Bohuslav 1892–1971

Sheep

Dry needle, handmade paper, 10 × 7 cm, signed bottom right in pencil by Reynek
The bulk of the extraordinary graphic work Bohuslav Reynek's graphic art was created in a relatively mature author's mature age from the 1950s onwards. of the 20th century in the seclusion of a farmhouse in Petrkov. in the Highlands. Graphic sheets, dry needles or small-format etchings contained concentrated statements, the motif of which were often biblical scenes or simple scenes of the farm and its surroundings with nature and animals. Christian scenes and stories were used in Reynek's in Reynka's renditions became above all essentially human, intimately experienced events that relate to personal level of man. The close connection and coexistence with animals, cats, goats and sheep, who play in Reynek's letters as the beings closest to humans, show man's eternal belonging with nature and also refer to the Christian symbolism. The effect of Reynek's graphic letters is enhanced by the representation of the light that emanates as if from within the scene, illuminating its surroundings.