Lot 83

Otakar Švec (1892 - 1955) Motorcyclist (Sunbeam)

It is a later copy of the famous statue made in 2007. The futuristic sculpture of a man on a motorcycle Sunbeam - Motorcyclist is Švec's first important sculpture from 1924, with which he celebrated great success in 1925 at the World Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris. The gifted artist studied at the UMPRUM and the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of J. V. Myslbek and J. Stursa, where he first worked as an assistant and assistant. After Štursa's death in 1925, he also managed the studio for two years. In the 1920s he stayed in Paris in the studio of Émile-Antoine Bourdelle. During World War II he created a series of sculptures of prominent figures of our history (J. Neruda, T. G. Masaryk, J. Hus). His fateful period was the 1950s, when he committed suicide under pressure from the communist regime during the construction of the Stalin monument and a year after his wife's suicide.

The cast of the original statue dates from 2007.

Signed on the lower left of the plaque: O. ŠVEC

On the bottom right of the plaque signed:

LIL FRANTA ANÝŽ PRAHA 

COPY STARÁ HUT 2007

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