Lot 2
  • 2

Antonín Procházka

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Antonín Procházka
  • Still Life with Vase and Flower (ZÁTIŠÍ S VÁZOU A KVĚTINOU)
  • signed with initials AP and dated 1914-15 lower left
  • watercolour, brush and ink and charcoal on paper

  • 29.2 by 21.6cm., 11½ by 8½in.
  • 29.2 x 21.6 cm

Provenance

Milan Heidenreich, Gothenburg
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1998, lot 2
Purchased at the above sale

Exhibited

Greenwich, Connecticut, Bruce Museum, The Pleasures of Collecting: Part II, Modern and Contemporary Art, 2003

Literature

Marcela Macharáčková, Antonín Procházka 1882-1945, Brno, 2002, no. K 136, p. 287, catalogued (as Still Life)
Jiří Hlušička, The Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art, Prague, 2004, pp. 194-195, no. P59, catalogued; p. 80, pl. 63, illustrated 

Condition

There is an artist pinhole in the upper right corner, and some faint spots of foxing in the left half of the composition. Overall this work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Executed in 1914-15.