Lot description
oil, enamel and pencil on cardboard 45 x 39.5 cm (oval) verso signed: E. Filla verso label National Gallery in Prague verso exhibition label Malmö Konsthall verso old stamp ROME Gallery verso inventory no. 0 8560; Provenance: – collection of painter Emil Filla and his family – restitution (after 1989) from the National Gallery in Prague (listed in the NG Prague under inventory number O 8560) – significant private collection Exhibited: – Malmö Konsthall in 1985 Publicated: – Emill Filla, Vojtech Lahoda, published by Academia in Prague in 2007, reproduced on p. 294 under no. 300; Authenticity certificate by Dr Frantisek Krejci Jr. (great-nephew and copyright holder of the painter) enclosed. Further consulted with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Professor Jaromir Zemina, Dr Jiri Machalicky and Vladimir Lekes.
