Authenticity confirmed by PhDr. Rea Michalová, Ph.D.
The painting ""Lovers"" represents authentic,
supremely neoclassical, immensely
charming work by Antonín Procházka, an author who
together with his peers from the legendary ""Eight- group""
and the ""Group of Visual Artists"" with their work
and by all his actions he contributed to the fact that the Czech
art played a significant role in the conquests
and revolutionary changes in European modern culture.
By his participation in the initiatory advent of expressionism, he
took part in the necessary break with the painting tradition
past and entering the dynamic twentieth century. Subsequent inclination towards cubism
together with his closest companions B.
Kubišta, E. Filla, V. Beneš and O. Gutfreund
and architects J. Gočár, J. Chochol, P. Janák, etc.
He contributed to the establishment of Prague as a recognised European centre of Cubism.
Procházek's subsequent departure from Cubism to
classicism around the middle of
1920s was not a sudden and forced artistic
transformation, but a completely logical development based on
by his extensive study of old European and Eastern
culture and philosophy.
The life of Antonín Procházka was shaped in his childhood by
the harmonious environment of a small village in Haná,
Vážany near Vyškov. The varied colours of the costumes
and the picturesque countryside offered the boy
the basis for his later artistic work.
Although according to his family's ideas Toník was to become a peasant or a priest, he devoted himself to painting and reading.
