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Oil on canvas. Signed lower right: “F. X. Böhm”. This painting of Eve holding an apple and standing before the tree of the knowledge of good and evil can be classified as a Neoclassical expression in Czech interwar painting. The artist, František Xaver Böhm, studied at Prague's Academy of Fine Arts under Professors Josef Loukota, Vlaho Bukovac and Jan Preisler, and went on to teach draftsmanship in Prague, Šumperk and Třeboň.