Pranas Gailius

1928–2015

Pranas Gailius (1928–2015) was a Lithuanian émigré printmaker and painter whose work was first shown in his homeland only in 2004. Already in works made after 1952, the influences of well-known artists survive only as outlines. He used a framing of the figure or a stronger linear accent in the cycles "Pan's Elegies" (1952–1958), "The Luxembourg Garden" (1952–1958) and "Georgics" (1957–1959). The wave of new expressionism that became popular in France in the mid-1950s also affected him: he moved away from figuration, and objecthood gave way to abstraction. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art and the Samogitian Art Museum.

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