Lot 57

Antonín Slavíček (1870 - 1910) THREE TREES

From the expert opinion of Prof. PhDr. Petr Wittlich CSc: "Three mature deciduous trees from a slight overlook, a road between them, a steep hill in the background. The painting looks almost like a sketch-like underpainting, but it is a different aspect of the painter's work. At the end of his stay in Kameničky in 1905, Antonín Slavíček painted a number of remarkable sketches - mostly on wood and plywood, usually in smaller formats, with which he recorded "impressions of fleeting moods", as he wrote in a letter to August Švagrovský. Some of these sketches, with their strong expressiveness of colour, are preserved in this collection. This expressiveness can be interpreted by the emotional state of mind at the time, and this tendency was certainly accelerated by the experience of the Edvard Munch exhibition organised by the SVU Mánes. A wave of protest against the "cult of sketches" was raised in the art criticism of the time, even though the painting looks very modern." The work is accompanied by an expert opinion by PhDr. Jana Orlíková and a laboratory report.