Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Helena (1894-1980) Zahrada Snu, Cyklus sesti suchych jehel.
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Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Helena (1894-1980)
Zahrada Snu, Cyklus sesti suchych jehel. [Dream Garden, Cycle of Six Drypoints]
Brno: Grafický Klub pro Moravu, 1926.
Folio-format folder with typographical title printed in red and black on the front and limitation page, containing six drypoint etchings of the artist's "Garden of Dreams", printed on wove Van Gelder Zonen watermarked paper, five of six signed in pencil by the author (some minor foxing); 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová is widely recognized as one of the first, if not the first, women graphic novelists. She began printing and publishing in the early 1900s, concentrating on woodcut narratives ca. 1929 with her career finally culminating in being credited with more than 15 graphic novels.
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