Helena Bochořáková’s unpublished wordless novel, Malířka Na Cestách, in 52 woodcuts is graphic memoir of the artist’s early professional life telling about her experiences studying art in Europe.

Possible cover for Bochořáková's unpublished wordless novel, Malířka Na Cestách. Image credit: Bruce Guthrie.
Possible cover for Bochořáková’s unpublished
wordless novel, Malířka Na Cestách.
Image credit: Bruce Guthrie.

The Story Arc: The story opens with her studying art in Prague; her time in Paris (where she became aware of the wordless novels of Frans Masereel); and her travels in Europe.

  • Title: Malířka Na Cestách (translated – The Painter on the Road aka The Artist On her Journey)
  • Author and Illustrator: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová,
  • Year: 1930
  • Publisher: Unpublished
  • Dust jacket: no information (unlikely)
  • Description: Features a woman who receives an award to study art in Paris, drawing on the artist’s experience in the city where she became familiar with wordless novels and is likely an autobiography of the artist’s own journey.
  • One source indicates 52 woodcuts while another states 43.
Girl looking at train in Bochořáková's unpublished wordless novel, Malířka Na Cestách.
Used in Bochořáková’s unpublished
wordless novel, Malířka Na Cestách.
Image credit: Bruce Guthrie.
Bochorakova and her husband looking out of a window with a view of the Eiffel Tower.
From Bochořáková’s unpublished wordless novel, Malířka Na Cestách.
The artist and her husband with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
Image credit: Bruce Guthrie.

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