Lot description
ARTIST: Miroslav Kucera (Czech Republic, 1910 - ???) TITLE: Semi Nude Female MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Unstretched (In-House stretching available). Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. ART SIZE: 24 x 20 inches / 60 x 50 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: upper left PROVENANCE: Arnot Gallery, NY (has stamp on verso) LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 136245 US SHIPPING: $79 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Miroslav Kucera was born in 1910 and was largely influenced creatively by the 1930s. The period of the 1930s is characterised by the clashing of a number of political ideologies, including Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. In the Soviet Union, Stalin's government needed urgent funds to implement the rapid industrialisation demanded by the first Five Year Plan. It initiated a secret plan to sell off treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including a primary list of two hundred and fifty irreplaceable paintings by the Old Masters, a number of which ended up in the collection of Andrew Mellon via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler.