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ALFRED JUSTITZ 1879 Nova Ceretkev u Pelhrimova - 1934 Bratislava Summer Landscape

Currency:CZK Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:220,000.00 - 280,000.00 CZK
ALFRED JUSTITZ 1879 Nova Ceretkev u Pelhrimova - 1934 Bratislava Summer Landscape
1921, oil on canvas, 48 x 60.5 cm, signed and dated lower right A. Justitz 21, (on reverse a label with a note: dra A. Hoffmeist's private property lent for the purpose of decoration of a room in the VI. section until withdrawal by the owner. Price: 18,000, Ministry of Information stamp); framed in original slightly damaged frame Provenance: from the estate of Adolf Hoffmeister Literature: Vaclav Zykmund, Alfred Justitz, SCVU, Prague 1962; Nova encyklopedie ceskeho vytvarneho umeni (New Encyclopaedia of Czech Fine Art), Academia, Prague 1995, p. 330, Starting Price: CZK 190,000; USD 5.564; EUR 6.322, Estimated price: (220,000 - 280,000) CZK., Immensely interesting work of high quality from the time when the artist`s style was on the verge of turning from the late stages of cubism into neoclassicism. In this open-air painting of a forest and a mown meadow we can observe cubistic elements particularly in sharply bent shapes of clouds and trees as well as in the characteristic composition of dim colours.