Lot 147
Cyprián Majerník (1909 - 1945) Don Quixote de la Mancha

48,5 x 31,5 cm (h x w)

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400 000 CZK
   |   14 545 €
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650 000 CZK
   |   23 636 €
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Majerník is a major figure in Slovak modern painting. He studied at the Prague Academy under Professors Josef Loukota and Jakub Obrovský. He belonged to "Generace 1909", a group whose members focused on social and national issues. He spent a short time in Paris in the early 1930s. After graduating from the Academy, he remained in Prague permanently. Majerník's work was heavily influenced by the rise of Nazism and his own ordeal with multiple sclerosis. Don Quixote is a classic symbol of the futile fight the artist was waging in his personal life and in society, and this theme comes up again and again in his later work. Tempera and gouache on paper, signed and dated bottom left: Majerník 44. Exhibition labels on back.

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