Lot 463 D

The American artist with Czech origins visited Paris, Prague and Munich during the 1920s where he studied, among others, under Hans Hofmann, and also assisted him as a teacher. Hofmann's painting was to have a lasting influence on him. In 1936, Vytlacil was co-founder of the "American Abstract Artists Group" (AAA) that considerably propagated and established the modernist abstract tendencies of Modern Art in the US. Vytlacil himself taught, among other places, in New York, at Black Mountain College and at the Art Students League. The present tempera belongs to the purely abstract compositions created by Vytlacil in the late 1930s.