Lot 11
  • 11

Jindřich Štyrský

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jindřich Štyrský
  • Surreal Landscape (Surrealistická krajina)
  • signed and dated Štyrský / 1933 lower right
  • pencil with frottage and pen and ink on paper
  • 32 by 24cm., 12½ by 9½in.

Provenance

Galerie Martinská, Prague
Purchased from the above on 15 March 1999

Exhibited

Prague, S.V.U. Mánes, Jindřich Štyrský, 1946
Florida, The Wolfsonian; Chicago, Smart Gallery; New York, Grey Art Gallery: Dreams and Disillusion: Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde, 2000-01
Houston, Cullen Collection, 2011, no. 53, illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

The sheet is not fully laid down but attached along the upper edge to the backboard. There is scattered spotting overall and some even browning of the sheet with age. Framed and glazed, the edges of the sheet covered by the mat and not visible framed.
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