Lot 150

Pravoslav Kotík (1889 - 1970) BY THE WATER

From the opinion of PhDr. Rea Michalová Ph.D.: "The assessed painting "By the water" is an indisputable authorship, visually extraordinarily attractive, superbly played out in form and color by Pravoslav Kotík, a prominent representative of Czech modernism, an artist who was not subject to theoretical dogmas and had the courage to experiment artistically. The center of gravity however, his work became primarily a figural theme, i.e. a person in a complex social structure, reflecting his multi-layered story. Kotík was an author fascinated by the expression of human gesture, events and color contrasts in the painting. As Ludmila Vachtová accurately described: "At the beginning of these paintings, in addition to all the advantages, which we know about in Kotík (colorful organization of space, sense of large composition, bravura of detail), was movement. However, the focus of his work was mainly figural themes, i.e. a person in a complex social structure, reflecting his multi-layered story. Kotík was an author fascinated by expression human gesture, action, and color contrasts in the image. The featured image " By the water" is Kotík's beautiful work, exquisitely connected in form and color, which was able to literally brilliantly shine through the gloom of the wartime era. The atmosphere of the historical conflict gave the author's works a scenic and dramatic quality, the painter's paintings became a kind of concentrates of accumulated emotions."