(Untitled)
(1947)
from the Cache-toi, Guerre! (Hide, War!) portfolio 1947
- Medium
- zincograph
- Measurements
- 25.7 × 35.7 cm (image) 30.5 × 39.0 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Edition
- ed. 86/300
- Inscription
- printed in ink (in image) l.r.: toyen 44
- Accession Number
- 2022.1300.6
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Ruth Margaret Frances Houghton Bequest, 2022
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2022. © Copyright Agency - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Toyen was an important figure in both Czech and French Surrealism, and the only female member of Devêtsil, the Czech avant-garde group active in the 1920s. She produced paintings, drawings, prints, collages and book designs. Hide, War! is a suite of nine zincograph prints that reproduces drawings the artist made during the Second World War specifically for publication. The portfolio is a powerful statement about war and violence, presenting nightmarish visions in desolate landscapes. The images are accompanied by a poem by Jindřich Heisler, a Jewish writer who lived in hiding in Toyen’s apartment during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
