candle soot on canvasExecuted in 1989.

Acquired from the artist by the present owners

Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, Jiri Georg Dokoupil - Auction at Christie's, 14 September-14 October 1989 

Pierre Nahon, L'Histoire de la Galerie Beaubourg, Vol II 1988-1994, Paris, 2009, p. 95, illustrated in colour

The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. There is a dent with associated losses located in the upper left corner. There is a superficial abrasion with associated losses. There is a tiny hole located in the lower right corner of the canvas.
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Dokoupil's pointillism is like a photograph with big grains or an out of focus black and white televised image that moves and breaks into coherent and disorderly particles. The image is there, but restless, distorted, hesitant, with dark punctuations and overtly bright areas. An image of reality as deformed and indecisive that the one offered by daily news.

Dokoupil hesitates between surrealism, expressionism, realism, abstraction and conceptual art.

Pierre Nahon