oil on canvas
147 x 147 cm
verso signed, dated and inscribed on the blind frame: Zdenek Sykora: LINIE Nr. 61, 147 x 147 cm, 1989
verso further signed and dated: Sykora 89
verso further inscribed on the blind frame: majitel GALERIE GILLES GHEERBRANT, FRANCIE
verso exhibition label Wannieck Gallery

Listed in the Lenka and Zdenek Sykora Archive as L61, score in notebook no. 6.

Provenance:
– Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal (purchased directly from Zdenek Sykora‘s studio in 1989)
– in 2007, the painting was acquired by the Wannieck Gallery in Brno

Exhibited:
– Zdenek Sykora / Linie, Nova sin 1991, reproduced in catalogue under no. 11
– Tradition und Avantgarde in Prag, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück 1991 and Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn 1991, reproduced in catalogue under no. 14, incorrect dimensions – 150 x 150 cm, owner listed as Privatsammlung Frankreich
– Zdenek Sykora, Cultural and Information Center of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Berlin 1992, not reproduced in the catalog, listed in the exhibition catalogue as item no. 8, owner listed as Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant Montreal

Publicated:
– catalogue Zdenek Sykora / Linie, Nova sin, Prague, published by the Union of Fine Artists in Prague in 1991
– catalogue Tradition und Avantgarde in Prag, published by Pravis Osnabrück Gallery a DuMont Buchverlag Köln in 1991, in the section with color reproductions of the exhibited works on p. 14

Authenticity certificate by Lenka Sykorova, the copyright holder of the painter, dated 20. 1. 2026, enclosed.
Lenka Sykorova: "The work is absolutely fundamental in the creation of Zdenek Sykora's line paintings."