Evald Okas
(1915–2011)
Pühavaimu (Säde St). 1946
Autolitho. Vm 43 x 34 cm (framed)
price 1 300
The immediate post-war Pühavaimu street probably looks a little different from the modern view, but the houses are still the same, as is the street’s twist and turn. Evald Okas loved to depict the human being above all, but here he is a sharp-eyed depictor of the city, an empiricist with a smooth line, who did not add his own symbols or other additions to the authentic view. The monochrome treatment emphasises the impression of antiquity. Evald Okas was mobilised to the Red Army in 1941 and retreated from the front to the Estonian artists’ collective in Jaroslavl in 1942. Back in Tallinn in 1944, he went to work at the National Art Institute of the Estonian SSR.