The Vracmik Wrédna SERIES

The pioneering but little-known Czech (?)-born abstract modernist painter Vracmik (sometimes misspelled Vracnik) Wrédna (sometimes incorrectly spelled Wrédan or Wrénad, 1888-1968 [? 1981? ]) has long been a figure of interest for me. (I collect his work with enthusiasm, as prices for representative examples of Wrédna's work remain very reasonable.) He led a storied artist’s life, stretching from his roots and early (though abbreviated) academic training in Prague, through the Secession of Vienna, then into the midst of the modernist art world of Paris between 1907 and 1967, where he was by some accounts present at – possibly even collaborative in – the birth of cubism, having apparently spent, during his earliest childhood, numerous afternoons on the filthy floor of an already notorious artist at 11 Boulevard de Clichy. So precocious was the near infant Wrédna that one specialist in the field has tentatively dated several of the paintings shown below to the period 1906/7-1910.