Painting – JAN BOHDAN MELICHAR / Landscape with Pond (color lithograph)

ID: s16371
Category: Paintings
Subcategory: Prints
Location: New store

Country of origin: Česká Republika
Condition: Used

Description: Landscape with Pond is a color lithograph on paper, a work by painter and graphic artist Jan Bohdan Melichar. The composition depicts a natural scenery with a body of water and buildings. The signature "Jan B. Melichar" is located in the lower right. In the lower left, the work is numbered "2/160". The painting is dated approximately to 1960-80. The work is glazed. The frame shows some dents in places. On the reverse side of the frame, there is a handwritten text: "JAN BOHUSLAV MELICHAR". Jan Bohdan Melichar (1908–1994) was born in Hradec Králové. Although he did not have an academic art education, he privately studied with Vilém Nowak and Vincenc Beneš. He worked as a librarian and later as a graphic artist at the Archaeological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. From 1955, he fully devoted himself to painting and graphic arts. His preferred techniques included lithography, watercolor, and oil painting. He drew themes for his paintings primarily from the urban corners of Prague and South Bohemia. Jan Bohdan Melichar is represented in a number of galleries, including the National Gallery Prague, and had many exhibitions.

1 200 Kč / €50