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Title: Come to me, everyone
Date: year 1938
Technique: oil on canvas
Painting dimensions: 50 x 61 cm
Signed: at the top right Jan Zrzavy
On the reverse: exhibition label from Umelecka beseda from the year 1938 and other exhibition number 41 with note Zrzavy
Exhibited: Prague, year 1938, Aslova sin Umelecke besedy, under number 36
Exhibited: Exhibition Josef Sima - Jan Zrzavy: Paintings from famous collections, from 13 February to 24 February 2019, Prague, Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery in Manes
Exhibited: REDISCOVERED MASTERPIECES from private collections, from 21 November to 30 November 2019, exhibition space Galerie Zlata husa, Dlouha 12, Prague 1, the exhibition was organized by the company Starozitnosti-Galerie USTAR in cooperation with company Art collections URBAN, the painting is reproduced in catalog on pages 18 and 19.
The originality of this work was confirmed by Mgr. Kristyna Brozova, National Gallery in Prague, curator of painting - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Expert report: PhDr. Rea Michalova, Ph. D.
The work is reproduced in the catalog for the exhibition Czech Artists in France, FOR CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Tribute to a Non-existent Country, ISBN 978-80-260-9880-5
Text from the above catalog:
The painting by Jan Zrzavy, who reacted immediately to the Munich Agreement, Come to me, everyone, oil from the autumn of 1938, could be described as a revelation. Already its topic. In his Gospel, Matthew quotes the words of Christ: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (MT 11:28). The context in which these words were heard in the time of Christ and in the autumn of 1938, when this image was created, is also evident: "From the days of John the Baptist until today the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and rapists reach for it" (MT 11:12). In the time immediately after the Munich dictatorship, there was a hopeless situation in However, the complete political and mental disillusionment for most of the nation did not mean a spiritual crisis for Jan Zrzavy, who was known to be a Roman Catholic. On the contrary. Complete destruction - actually an apocalypse - could only be escaped by believing in the all-embracing arms that appeared in the painting. Christ's arms were offered here from the idyllic landscape to all the mild and desperate, burdened by the burdens of betrayal, loneliness and the worst visions. Bohuzel nejhorsi vize se naplni v nasledujicich letech, ale ti, kteri neztratili viru v Bozi a lidskou spravedlnost, dostali vykoupeni a pokoj o sedm let pozdeji. Jan Zrzavy, a shy and non-ostentatious Catholic, offered his solution to the crisis at the time by painting of this painting and exposing it on an exhibition in Umelecka beseda in Mala Strana in Prague. It was December 1938, everything seemed to be lost, but the belief in a better next was all the brighter and more radiant at the show. An artistic act, a cipher, a message of a comforting gesture, but also a personal act par excellence.
Provenance: Private collection of Ota Hofman (1928 - 1989), writer of children's literature, screenwriter and chief dramaturg of the creative group of children's film - Mr. Tau, Three Wishes for Cinderella, The Visitors.
Interesting fact: Jan Zrzavy had many friends among filmmakers and he also starred in the film. He played himself in the children's film Kate and the Crocodile based on a screenplay by Ota Hofman, from whose collection the work presented here comes.
