1947 Skupina Ra catalog and ephemera

Skupina Ra. Prague, [self-published], 1947. First edition. Small 4to, unpaginated, pictorial wrappers, stapled. Text in Czech. Original list of works laid in. Exhibition catalog of the Czech surrealist-avant-garde collective Skupina Ra, issued in the brief postwar period before the onset of Socialist Realism. Includes contributions by Josef Istler, Miloš Koreček, Ludvík Kundera, Bohdan Lacina, Zdeněk Lorenc, Vilém Reichmann, Václav Tikal, and Václav Zykmund—figures spanning painting, photography, and poetry. Striking cover design in pale blue photographic abstraction with bold typography, embodying the group’s synthesis of surrealism and modernist experimentation. An important document of the last flourishing of Czech poetic modernism in the 1940s. Very good condition. Inv. Bx1