Lot description
ARTIST: Miroslav Kucera (Czechoslovakian, 1910 - ???) TITLE: Winter Village Landscape MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Unstretched (In-House stretching available) (In-House stretching available). Overall good. No visible inpaint under UV light. Normal wear to edges. ART SIZE: 24 x 36 inches / 60 x 91 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower left PROVENANCE: Arnot Gallery, NY (has gallery stamp on verso) LOCATION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 153525 US SHIPPING: $139 + 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.