oil on canvas, cardboard, 49 × 75,5 cm, frame, inscription Karel on the reverse
Myslbek - Horses (ca. 1904)
Provenance: family of Miloš Jiránek.
Professionally restored.Karel Myslbek, son of his famous father, sculptor Josef Václav Myslbek,
was once described as a painter of human misery and suffering. The Academy of Fine Arts
Artists' Academy under the name František
Voves, taking evening courses in painting under Professor Maximilian Pirner, while
he graduated in 1899 under Professor Vojtěch Hynais. He was one of the greatest
friends of Miloš Jiránek, with whom he liked to landscape by the Vltava River in Troja and at
wandering in the Mělník region. His influence can be seen in his early unmarked
oil of Horses from around 1904, where the stagecoach is elevated high
above the horizon already anticipates the artist's later compositions with massive
figures in an urban or landscape context. The expression of the painting is partly
influenced in part by his summer stay in France and Spain in 1903, where
admiring especially Velázquez and Goya of his elders and Zuloaga of his
peers. The colour palette, muted into a sonority, corresponds to this.
balladic tone. The painting comes from the family of Miloš Jiránek, who was
the painting was directly dedicated to him by his friend Myslbek.
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67th auction of Fine Art, Antiques, Design and Glass, 16th June 2024
67th auction of Fine Art, Antiques, Design and Glass
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