Plastron

Many of the sculptures of Zdeněk Dvořák were destroyed during World War Two. Only fragments of his abstract work done between 1932 and the late 1930s have survived. Dvořák’s reliefs composed as sets of overlapping and merging planary organic forms and dynamic curves elaborating the compositional system of paintings by František Foltýn in sculpted form are a unique example of the organic and purely abstract expression in Czech sculpture of this period. The Plastron carved of wood is one of Dvořák’s last abstract reliefs.