Lot 85
Max Švabinský (1873 - 1962) ABDUCTION, FROM THE CYCLE PARADISE SONATA

1920
woodcut, paper
In frame 83 x 54 cm (h x w)
sign. lower right: M Švabinský

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15 000 CZK
| 625 €

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38 000 CZK
| 1 583 €

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Sometime between 1916 and 1920, the idea of creating the Paradise Sonata was born in the mind of Max Švabinský. He dwelt in nature, which enchanted him, and found the embodiment of sensual intoxication in the female figure that appears in the form of "August Noon." In the Paradise Sonata, a woman appears to a lonely man, and the pair find love in each other. In a complex set of nudes he found an allegory of the human fate and the search for one's own counterpart. Set in a tropical paradise, it resonates with the artist's view of the wild unbridled fertility of nature, bursting with life. Framed under anti-reflective glass with UV filter.