Lot 22
  • 22

Karel Cerný

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Karel Cerný
  • In the Bar (V BARU)
  • signed K. Černý and dated 46 lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 109 by 94cm., 42½ by 37in.
  • 109 x 94cm

Provenance

Kunsthandel Gallery, Vienna
Purchased from the above on 28 April 1998

Exhibited

Greenwich, Connecticut, Bruce Museum, The Pleasures of Collecting: Part II, Modern and Contemporary Art, 2003
Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, Pražské noci / Prague Nights: Czech Modern Art from the Hascoe Collection, 2007

Literature

Miroslav Lamač, Osma and Skupina, Prague, 1988
Vojtěch Lahoda, Karel Černý 1910 - 1960, Prague, 2003, no. 146, p. 110, illustrated; p. 192, illustrated & catalogued (with incorrect dimensions)
Jiří Hlušička, The Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art, Prague, 2004, p. 188, no. P10, catalogued; p. 173, pl. 159, illustrated

Condition

Original canvas. There are no signs of retouching visible under ultra-violet light. Overall this work is in good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

Painted in 1946.