Czech Avant-Garde Art from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection

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Lot 21
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Toyen (Marie Čermínová)

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Toyen (Marie Čermínová)
  • Study for the Cover of Marcel Aymé's La Jumente verte (Zelená kobyla)
  • signed with the initial lower right; with faint traces of colour notes
  • pen and ink on paper
  • 11.5 by 11.5cm., 4½ by 4½in. (image size); 26.5 by 22cm., 10½ by 8¾in. (sheet size)

Provenance

Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels & Čubrda, Prague
Purchased from the above in 1999

Exhibited

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. 48, illustrated in the catalogue

Catalogue Note

Executed in 1934.