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Tavik Frantisek Simon, forgotten painter of the 20th century

Animation streets, commercial, touristic and historical ... The Paris of the 1910s, 20 and 30 remains in memory with photography, but especially to painting and illustration.

Place Maubert, Paris, 1914, ref. Novak 227.

is randomly Research 36 views of the Eiffel Tower Henry River we found the artist Tavik Frantisek Šimon , unjustly overlooked.

Carnival in Paris, 1909,
ref. Novak 102

Born in 1877 in Bohemia and died in 1942 in Prague, he traveled widely worldwide, mainly in Europe. He brought his travels quantities of lithographs, etchings, drawings and paintings.

Painter Street, he immortalized those of Tangier, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Prague. His views are full of life: passersby, artisans, figures neighborhoods but also traffic, smoke stacks and means of locomotion are represented, witnessed what was life in the big cities in the early 20th.

Looking for books on Šimon

Quai Voltaire, Paris, 1919
ref. Novak 404

Discovering a work of Simon, in our case series Thirty-six views of Notre-Dame de Paris , makes you want to see more. Libraries, bookstores and booksellers were skimmed off to try to find documentation on the artist.

I investigate what could be published about him in France without finding anything. Yet I have assisted the editors NMR and librarians BnF (whom I thank warmly for their kindness in passing and the time they spent at my request).

Research booksellers Prague have failed ... documentation Šimon seems almost nil.

Commercial Street, Kyoto, Japan, 1928
ref. Novak 479

Fortunately for us a team of Dutch fans realize exceptional work via its website, tfsimon.com . It collects and disseminates much information about the artist, complemented by amateurs worldwide.

The most important basis for this painstaking work is the catalog raisonne Arthur Novak, a friend of Simon, had in 1937. He had set a goal to make an inventory of works by the artist, technical, SEO and size.

Rue Royale in the rain, Paris, 1925, ref. Novak 429

I finally found a revised and expanded version of the "Novak" at the gallery Frederick Baker United States. This gallery has published this brochure at an exhibition dedicated to Simon a few years ago.

Within a week I get the catalog ordered. I jump for joy and finds that the editor was careful to resume references Novák.
Thus, one can easily find on the website of the artist's works presented in very small format in the catalog.

I relish reading, wondering what is expected to museums and events responsible for dedicating an exhibition to turn this unknown painter. Why not make an exhibition grouped, showing the work of several artists of that time in Paris or Europe?
I raise the invitation of Catharine Bentick to the attention of "tchèquophones" tempted by the idea: a biography as exhaustive as possible and allow the greatest number of (re) discover the life and work of this exceptional painter.

Indian Girls, Ceylon, 1931, ref. 53 Novák

Charles Bridge in Winter, Prague, 1916, ref. Novak 255

Tangier Nocturne, 1914, ref. Novak 226

Acknowledgements:

- publishers of the Reunion des Musees Nationaux,

- librarians of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

(both services have spent some time doing research, their emails were always very complete)

- Alice, my "interviewer" in the Czech Republic.

Thank you Help!

- Madame -

The Graphic Work of TF Šimon

by Scot A. Campbell

ed. Frederick Baker 2002