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JOSEF CAPEK Czech 1887-1945 OOC Cubist Still Life

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JOSEF CAPEK Czech 1887-1945 OOC Cubist Still Life
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Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring a Cubist style still life scene. Signed and attr. Josef Capek (Czech, 1887-1945), on the lower left corner. 61 x 45.5 cm (24 x 17.9 in.). Capek was born in Hronov, Bohemia in 1887. First a painter of the Cubist school, he later developed his own playful, minimalist style. He collaborated with his brother Karel on a number of plays and short stories; on his own, he wrote the utopian play Land of Many Names and several novels, as well as critical essays in which he argued for the art of the unconscious, of children, and of 'savages'. He was named by his brother as the true inventor of the term robot. As a cartoonist, he worked for Lidové Noviny, a newspaper based in Prague. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate