Beautiful Graphics by T.F.Simon, Czech Artist

Boulevard Saint-Martin, Paris, 1910

Evening Festival, Paris, 1910

T.F.Simon. Beautiful Winter
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Tavík František Šimon (1877-1942), was a Czech painter, etcher, and woodcut artist. He was the youngest of seven children of the miller Antonin Šimon and Anna Tavikova. He showed early a talent for drawing, his elementary school teacher recommended to his parents to send him for art education in Prague.

As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, he received a stipend that allowed him to travel to Italy, Belgium, England and France. He had his first solo exhibition in Prague in 1905, and a Paris exhibition in 1906. His extensive travels would eventually also bring him to New York City, London, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, and Japan, images of all of which appear in his work.

Communicants on the Steps of La Madeleine, Paris, 1909

After studying in Paris in 1905–1913, Simon returned to Prague and became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.
Simon's style was strongly influenced by the French Impressionists and, perhaps through them, by Japanese printmaking techniques, in particular color aquatints with soft ground etching. created more than 650 graphic works of high quality.
Largely ignored during the Communist era in Czechoslovakia, his work has received greater attention in recent years.

Porte Saint-Martin, Paris, 1908

Fireworks in Paris, 1928

Breton Potters

The old Canal Het Kolkje, Amsterdam, 1913

Mi-careme, Paris, 1907

Sunny Beach, 1906

Sous le Parasole, 1904

Paris, Boulevard in the evening, 1910

Rue Mouffetard, Paris

Rue Royale in the Rain, Paris, 1923

Place Maubert, Paris, 1913

Nocturne in Stramberk, 1921

Les Halles et l`Église Saint-Eustache, Paris 1926

Tyn Church in the Morning, 1932

Pont Saint-Michel, Paris 1927

Windy Beach, 1908

Fiesole near Florence in the Evening 1929

Marketplace in Nice, 1912

Petit Restaurant, Paris, 1906

Parisian Flower Vendors, 1909

Charles Bridge and Hradcany, 1910

Nocturne, 1916

Notre Dame in Twilight, Paris, 1923

Notre-Dame de Paris in the Evening, 1927

Nocturne in Morlaix, Brittany 1929

Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1931

Prague, 1920

Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, 1929

The Old Bibliophile, Paris 1926

Bird Market in Verona, 1906

Venetian Woman, 1908