Painter and graphic artist Koloman Sokol - born in Liptovský Mikuláš on 12th December, 1902 - is one of Slovakia's leading 20th-century exponents of graphic art, a discipline in which he was also founder of a distinct interwar tradition. Sokol attended the private schools of Eugen Krón in Košice and Gustav Mallý in Bratislava and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied under Max Švabinský and T.F. Šimon. Following a period of study with František Kupka in Paris he accepted an invitation from the Mexican Ministry of Culture and Education to teach graphic art at the school of...