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Jiri Kolar (Czech, 1914-2002) Collage with Lithograph. Signed lower right, JK 73 and also signed on the back. Inspected out of the frame, collage pieces constructed of vertical offset lithograph paper strips that are laid down. Optical illusion double image original collage. Measures 10.75 inches high, 16.5 inches wide. Frame measures 19 inches high, 24.75 inches wide. In good condition with slight mat burn. Included with the collage is a color photograph taken in the early 1970's of the consignor collector with the artist Jiri Kolar. Also included are two Jiri Kolar books, two magazines and one exhibition catalog. From Askart.com: Jiri Kolar, (1914- 2002), Czech artist and writer who excelled in both poetry and collage, but his works embodied independence and originality at a time when communist cultural repression made such qualities liabilities, and he suffered oppression and imprisonment in his native country. Kolar began exhibiting his art in 1937 and published his first poetry collection, Birth Certificate, in 1941. Communist authorities banned his writing in 1949 and again in the 1960s, and he was imprisoned for nine months in the early 1950s. Beginning in the early 1960s, Kolar focused more on visual art and became increasingly experimental, eventually earning a place as one of the masters of the collage form. From Wikipedia: Jiri Kolar was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work included both literary and visual art. His first exhibitions in 1937 focused on his collages.In the 1960s Kolar first combined painting and poetry but he gradually turned completely to experiments in visual art. In his work he used a scalpel to cut pictures out of magazines. He produced colors in his collages by gluing on printed fragments of paper from various different sources. His collages were intended to influence the viewer's outlook on life; the technique of using fragments of text and images from various different sources was well suited to achieve the effect Kolar wanted, by showing the destruction and fragmentation of the world Kolar inhabited. Simultaneously, by juxtaposition and contrasting of these different fragments the technique of the collage served to create surprising and visually striking new combinations; for instance, the combination of astronomical maps with Braille writing. Kolar invented or helped to develop new techniques of collage - confrontage, froissage, rollage, chiasmage and others. From the 1960s Kolar's visual artwork was featured regularly in exhibitions by galleries and museums. Some of the more prominent exhibitions of his work were in the New York Guggenheim museum in 1975, in Prague in 1994 in Dum U Cerne Matky Bozi, in Madrid in 1996 in the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia.