1921/1973. Linocut on wove paper, 24.7 x 20 cm (plate). One of 30 copies from the portfolio: Sedam linoreza: 1921-1922, Belgrade 1973. The album contained seven linocuts by Mihailo (also: Mihajlo) S. Petrov, printed from the original plates, which were created separately between 1921 and 1922 for the avant-garde magazines Zenit, Dada Tank and Út. Reference: Timothy O. Benson: central european avant-gardes: exchange and transformation, 1910-1930; LACMA 2002, p. 280 ff. Including frame.
Mihailo S. Petrov (1901–1983) is considered a pioneer of modern Serbian graphic art. His early style fluctuates between expressive, figurative reduction and entirely abstract compositions close to Cubism, Futurism and Dada, which sometimes incorporate typographic elements. Petrov was one of the contributors to the Serbian avant-garde magazine Zenit, which appeared between 1921 and 1926 with texts in Serbian, French and German, and linked the “Zenitism” proclaimed by Ljubomir Micic (a Serbian variant of Italian Futurism) with the international avant-garde by including texts by numerous foreign authors.
