artist: Stanislav Holas

title: Untitled, 1977

inventory: sh-04

media: graphite on paper

size: 8 x 7 1/2" UF

price: contact gallery

artist: Stanislav Holas

title: Untitled, 1977

inventory: sh-05

media: graphite on paper

size: 6 x 7 1/2" UF

price: contact gallery

artist: Stanislav Holas

title: Untitled, 1987

inventory: sh-08

media: graphite on paper

size: 6 1/4 x 6 " UF

price: contact gallery

artist: Stanislav Holas

title: Untitled, 1971

inventory: sh-19

media: graphite on paper

size: 7 x 8 3/4" UF

price: contact gallery

artist: Stanislav Holas

title: Untitled, 1971

inventory: sh-17

media: colored pencil on paper

size: 8 x 10 1/2" UF

price: contact gallery

Stanislav Holas (Czechoslovakia, 1905-1989)

Stanislav Holas was a mediumistic artist from a spiritualist circle in Southern Moravia. Trained as a barrel-maker, he later worked as a policeman. Holas began to draw in his youth and continued to draw throughout his life with frequent and long breaks. However, after his retirement and the death of his wife in 1969 he became more artistically active.

Holas showed his drawings at many mediumistic exhibitions in Europe and in New York as early as 1937. His earlier works have more figurative traits, while his later works are more abstract with wavy rounded shapes and finely modulated warm colors or shading.

Stanislav Holas’ artwork is currently part of a major exhibition of mediumistic Czech artists at Halle St. Pierre in Paris called “L’Art Brut Tchéque”.