Lot 79
  • 79

Otakar Kubin (Othone Coubine)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Otakar Kubin (Othone Coubine)
  • Landscape (KRAJINA)
  • signed Coubine lower right
  • oil on canvas
  • 72 by 100.5cm., 28¼ by 39½in.
  • 72 x 100.5 cm

Provenance

Václav Dvořák (confiscated after 1959)
Transferred to the Moravian Gallery in Brno in the early 1960s
Restituted to the Dvořák family after 1992
Galerie Longa, Prague
Purchased from the above on 15 January 1999

Exhibited

Prague, National Gallery, The Collection of Dr. Harý, 1958 

Literature

Jiří Hlušička, Czech Modern Art Painting in the Moravian Gallery in Brno, Brno, 1989, p. 116, no. 68
Jiří Hlušička, The Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art, Prague, 2004, p. 28, mentioned; p. 189, no. P12, catalogued (as Czech Landscape with Strips of Fields); p. 135, pl. 120, illustrated

Condition

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

Painted in 1935.