Oil, canvas, frame, glass, 39 × 40 cm, signed bottom left AP
Accompanied by a memorial with drawings and descriptions by Antonín Procházka
and Linka Procházková.
Provenance: from the collection of Bohumil Vykopal.'Antonín Procházka was a generational comrade of Josef Čapek and Emil Filla,
Jan Zrzavý, Václav Špála, Bohumil Kubišta and other representatives of
of the founding generation of Czech modern painting. Like them
he strove for Czech art to come to terms with the spiritual impulses of the time
and come into direct creative contact with the work of foreign artists and began to
to participate in the most current developments in European art.
Procházka responded to the impulses of European modern painting, although mostly
he lived outside the metropolis. The development of his work was therefore more complex, as he sensitively
he sought to continue his work in many directions. He was thus influenced by
expressionism, the cubist school and the fascination of primitivism to finally
to a very distinctive form of classicism. Eventually he created his own world
of a dreamlike and disillusioned reality, from which he excluded disharmony, pain
and sadness.
In his work, Procházka most often returns to the motif of the woman - the muse who
symbolizing the seasonal weather, the goddess of beauty and love. His women, playing
and bathing children, all spiritualized by motherhood and the divine smile
Madonna. He also often returns to the motifs of horses, struggling roosters and playing
cats playing.
Drawing A. Procházka is an artistic expression in its own right
and occupies an important place in his oeuvre. The art of drawing has matured here
to the greatest perfection and mastery. Procházka's drawing expression stands out
an amazing lightness. Numerous drawings became the precursor of the artist's extensive
painterly inventiveness and predestined his work to great tasks that referred
to the masters of the Italian Renaissance.
Sources Albert Kutal, J. B. Svrček
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auction 60
60th auction of Fine Art, Antiques, Design and Glass
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