JIRI KOLAR (1914–2002) CELESTIAL APPLE Starting price: 80 000 CZK (2 963 EUR) Hammer price: 500 000 CZK (18 519 EUR) Description dimensions: 36 cm (height) / Ø 29 cm period: 1973, Bohemia, Prague It is exceptional when the work of Jiří Kolář appears on the art scene. He transformed from a poet into a visual artist, giving words three-dimensional form and turning everyday objects into poetry. Apples appear in Kolář's work more often, probably as an artifact that symbolizes the beginning and end, a sort of bipolarity. The object has been made using Jiří Kolář's own technique of chiasmage. From the collection of Vladimír Preclík. Published in: Jiří Kolář Odeon, 1993, p. 111, fig. 151. Paper.
JIRI KOLAR (1914–2002) CELESTIAL APPLE Starting price: 80 000 CZK (2 963 EUR) Hammer price: 500 000 CZK (18 519 EUR) Description dimensions: 36 cm (height) / Ø 29 cm period: 1973, Bohemia, Prague It is exceptional when the work of Jiří Kolář appears on the art scene. He transformed from a poet into a visual artist, giving words three-dimensional form and turning everyday objects into poetry. Apples appear in Kolář's work more often, probably as an artifact that symbolizes the beginning and end, a sort of bipolarity. The object has been made using Jiří Kolář's own technique of chiasmage. From the collection of Vladimír Preclík. Published in: Jiří Kolář Odeon, 1993, p. 111, fig. 151. Paper.
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