Boulevard Saint-Martin, Paris, 1910
Evening Festival, Paris, 1910T.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, 1909After 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
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