Lot 109

Bohumír Dvorský (1902 - 1976) ZÁTIŠÍ S OVOCEM

In his youth Bohumír Dvorský worked in the Ostrava bookbinding firm Siebitz and at the same time learned to paint under the local drawing professor Otto Molitor. He joined the Prague Academy in 1924 under Otakar Nejedlý and Vincenc Beneš. With the Nejedlý school he completed several painting stays in France, Italy and Corsica. In his later years he also made frequent study trips, repeatedly to France and Italy, also to Germany, the Soviet Union, Romania, Bulgaria, and probably to China. He was a member of many art associations in Moravia and Brno, and in Prague he was a member of the Mánes Society of Artists. From the 1950s he was a member of the Czechoslovak Union of Visual Artists.Although he was never an ideologically committed painter, he was accepted and appreciated by the communist regime. Bohumír Dvorský was a pro-documentary painter and exhibited very often, first participating in the culturally important Exhibition of Contemporary Culture in Brno in 1928 while still a student at the Academy, and independently from 1944. He is represented in the collection of the National Gallery in Prague and numerous regional galleries. From 1939 until his death he lived at Svatý Kopeček near Olomouc. 

The majority of Dvorský's work consists of landscapes from Haná and floral still lifes. The offered Still Life with Fruit, although small in format, is a typical example of his painting style from the best creative period of the 1940s. In addition to its characteristic intense colour and vigorous, confident brushwork, it is characterised by a firm structure of form and coherence of composition.