Lot 180
  • 180

Jan Štursa

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Jan �tursa
  • Seated Nude (SEDÍCÍ AKT)
  • signed Jan Štursa and dated 1919 lower right
  • pencil on paper

  • 36.2 by 47.6cm., 14¼ by 8¾in.
  • 36 x 22.5 cm

Provenance

Jindřich Waldes, no. W 1504
Confiscated in 1940
National Gallery Prague, 1940-1996
Restituted to Jiří Waldes, son of Jindřich Waldes, in 1996, no. 5716
Sale: Meissner-Neumann, Prague, 30 May 1998, lot 189
Purchased at the above sale

Literature

Jiří Hlušička, The Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art, Prague, 2004, p. 209, no. D168, catalogued (as Seated Nude of a Girl)

Condition

Executed on cream paper.
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