Table with Fish, Black Background
Pablo Picasso
Fine Art Drawings - 55 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
£124,195
Painting : oil
56 x 69 x 1 cm 22 x 27.2 x 0.4 inch
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Hand-signed by artist
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Medium
Painting: oil
Dimensions cm • inch
56 x 69 x 1 cm 22 x 27.2 x 0.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
Framing
Brown frame
Artwork dimensions including frame
75 x 87.5 x 4 cm 29.5 x 34.4 x 1.6 inch
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: Czech Republic
The canvas Wounded Man from 1942 is an iconic example of his mastery. The colouring is subdued: very harmonious without marked or strong contrasts. In the top right-hand corner is a black moon or possibly sun. It is motif that in Cerný's oeuvre refers to the hidden side of the times, society and also art. This thematically rare, rediscovered and for many years inaccessible to the public canvas in a very modern symbolic-expressive approach comes from the artist's key period when he visited the South Bohemian landscape to paint. The painting is the first variant of the canvas of the same name from 1945 and is a motivic continuation of the relaxing canvas Men in a Bath. Cerný's interest in the spirituality of late Gothic art, the sculptures of pietas, then culminates in Lamentation in 1946, whose individual motifs have their antecedents in the wounded and the weeping. The collecting value of this work is enhanced by its reproduction in the artist's key literature.
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Cermak Eisenkraft_ • Czech Republic
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Karel Cerný was one of the most talented Czech painters of the first half of the 20th century. Due to lack of financial resources he was twenty-three years old before he entered the Prague Academy of Fine Arts where his teacher was Jakub Obrovský. From the very start of his career he was a loner. The Mánes association was the only major artists' grouping that he joined. In 1946, in the wake of World War II he made his first foreign trip to Paris, to which he returned several times. From the mid-1930s the themes of his paintings were café society, lovers and weeping women. In the 1940s his subject matter also included Paris, Prague and still lifes. Cerný's style is unmistakable. He worked with strong black outlines that defined figures in a very clear and distinctive manner. He was able to heighten the overall atmosphere of his paintings by sensitive colour work that is seemingly sparing but actually well thought out. Following the Nazi occupation he reduced his use of colour and his paintings become darker.
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