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Lot 144
Jakub Obrovský (1882 - 1949) PORTRAIT OF A GIRL

1943
oil on cardboard
In frame 53 x 42 cm (h x w)
sign. lower right: J. Obrovský 43

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1 000 CZK
| 42 €

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32 000 CZK
| 1 333 €

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Jakub Obrovský was born into the family of a peasant landowner and studied at AVU with Max Pirner. In 1909, he joined the Association of Moravian Artists. In 1919, he became a professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His work also includes figural symbolist work, and he also became a co-designer of the first Czechoslovak postage stamps. The portrait of a girl in a pink dress was exhibited at the Leopold Museum in Vienna at the exhibition Grund, Mucha, Čapek... Tschechische Malerei aus der Sammlung Kooperativa.