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Lot 9
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Mikuláš Medek

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Mikuláš Medek
  • Tower Planner's Head
  • signed and dated MEDEK 69 upper right; signed and dated M MEDEK 1969, and titled in Czech on the reverse
  • mixed media on canvas

  • 150 by 100cm., 59 by 39½in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Geneva (acquired from the artist)
Purchased from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Brno, Dum Umeni & Prague, National Gallery, Mikuláš Medek Malirské Dilo 1942-1974, 1990, no. 143, illustrated (as Hlava projektana vezi III (X), with incorrect measurements and provenance)
Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum, Mikuláš Medek, 2002, illustrated (as Hlava projektana vezi III, with incorrect measurements and provenance)
 

Condition

Mixed media on original canvas, with no signs of retouching under UV light. This work is in good condition, and is ready to hang. Held in a narrow black-painted modern wood frame.
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