20th Century Art: A Different Perspective
20th Century Art: A Different Perspective
Property from a Private Collection
Václav Spála
Still Life with Flowers
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November 9, 02:25 PM GMT
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25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Property from a Private Collection
Václav Spála
Czech
1885 - 1946
Still Life with Flowers
signed and dated V Špála 40 lower right and numbered 1291 and stamped on the reverse
oil on canvas
Unframed: 81 by 65.4cm., 31¾ by 25¾in.
Framed: 105 by 88.5cm., 41¼ by 34¾in.
Ars Fontes, Václav Spála: Catalogue raisonné / Soupis Dila 1885-1946, Czech Republic, 2002, p. 118, no. 1291
Painted on the 17th of July 1940.
Špála joined the Group of Fine Artists in 1911. Considered the most Fauve of his generation, his Cubo-Expressionist style is marked by the use of dynamic simple forms, in intense red and blue tones, as evident in the present work. In 1918 he became a co-founder of a new group of artists Tvrdošíjní (The Stubborn Ones).