Lot 91
TOMÁŠ GARRIGUE MASARYK
1935 - 1936
57 cm (h)
| 3 696 EUR
This bust of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, was created by the important sculptor Vincenc Makovský. After studying painting under Jakub Obrovský and Karel Krattner and sculpting under Bohumil Kafka and Jan Štursa at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1919-1926), he travelled to Paris on a French government scholarship to work under Antoine Bourdelle. He spent World War II in Zlín, where he co-founded the Art School and was the head of the Instrument and Machine Forming department. After the war he settled in Brno-Obřany, where he lived and worked up until his death. He was a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Artists (from 1930) and Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences, was a founding member of the Czechoslovak Surrealist Group and a professor at the University of Technology in Brno (from 1947) and Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (from 1952). He has created a number of public artworks, primarily monuments, mostly in Brno but also around the Czech Republic and abroad. His son, Zdeněk Tomáš Makovský (* 1946), is also a sculptor and architect. The statue is an original cast from the estate of the foundry of Franta Anýž.
Andere Auktionsgegenstände

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Erzielter Preis
180 000 CZK | 7 826 EUR

Lot 2 MADONNA WITH JESUS AND ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
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1 700 000 CZK | 73 913 EUR

Lot 3 MADONNA WITH CHILD
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50 000 CZK | 2 174 EUR

Lot 4 MADONNA WITH A CHILD
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50 000 CZK | 2 174 EUR

Lot 5 URANIA
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370 000 CZK | 16 087 EUR

Lot 6 ADORATION OF SHEPHERDS
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120 000 CZK | 5 217 EUR

Lot 7 ALLEGORY OF AIR
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110 000 CZK | 4 783 EUR

Lot 8 HUNTING DIANA
Rufpreis55 000 CZK | 2 391 EUR
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55 000 CZK | 2 391 EUR

Lot 9 TWO BAROQUE SMALL SCULPTURES
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70 000 CZK | 3 043 EUR

Lot 10 SAINT MARY MAGDALENE
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20 000 CZK | 870 EUR

Lot 11 CERAMIC TANKARD IN GILDED MOUNTING
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Lot 12 A MANNERIST CHEST
Rufpreis55 000 CZK | 2 391 EUR
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70 000 CZK | 3 043 EUR