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FRANTIŠEK JAROSLAV PECKA

1878-1960

Not Without My Ghosts, Drawing Room (London) 2020

The Medium's Medium, The Gallery of Everything (London) 2019

Outsider Art Fair (New York) 2019

Topic Salon (Narod) c 1920

National House of Smíchov (Smíchov) c 1920

Clam-Gallas Palace (Prague) c 1920

Not Without My Ghosts, Drawing Room, 2020

Artists Translating Spirits, Cavin Morris Gallery, 2018

A PUBLISHED AUTHOR ON EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY, FRANTIŠEK JAROSLAV PECKA WAS A GEOLOGIST, ARCHAEOLOGIST AND PALEONTOLOGIST, WHOSE IMMERSION IN SPIRITUALIST STUDY INSPIRED AN EXTRAORDINARY BODY OF WORK.

HIS (RE)DISCOVERED PROTO-PSYCHEDELIC SPIRIT PORTRAITS AND FINGER PAINTINGS, PRODUCED IN TRANCE AND ACCREDITED TO THE DEPARTED, LED TO HIS STATUS AS ONE OF THE MOST AVANT-GARDE FIGURES WITHIN EARLY 20TH CENTURY MEDIUMISTIC ART.