Karel TEIGE. Evé vdléné jéji [The Old Bride with Her]. 1942. - Lot 195

Karel TEIGE. 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, large original collage by Czech surrealist Karel Teige. Made from photographs cut from magazines, it shows a young woman seated next to a wooden mannequin, whose arm is around her neck. A major representative of the Czech avant-garde, Karel Teige (1900-1951) designed the famous book ABCDA with Vitezslav Nevzal in 1926, for which he produced the typography and photomontages. From 1934 to his death, he produced 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 subject, but "rather the raw material, the grammar from which Teige makes lyrical or political or emotional statements.") Exhibitions: El Poeta como artista, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1995, p. 203. - I Surrealisti, Milano, Palazzo Reale, 1989, p. 404.