Lot 46
  • 46

Jindrich Styrsky

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jindrich Styrsky
  • Les Chemise neuves (Le Cabinet ambulant)
  • signed Styrsky and dated 1934 (lower right)
  • collage on paper
  • 40.1 x 27 cm ; 15 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Acquired from the above in 1983

Exhibited

Prague, Galerie Mánes, Prvni výstava skupiny surrealistů v ČSR : Makovský, Štyrský, Toyen v budově Mánesa v Praze, 1935
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Rétrospective Styrsky, Toyen, Heisler, 1982
Paris, Galerie 1900-2000, Peinture surréaliste et imaginative en Tchécoslovaquie 1930-1960, 1983
Rheims, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grand Jeu et Surréalisme, 2004
Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Contre toute raison - Surréalisme Paris - Prague, 2009-10, no. 405

Condition

Executed on buff craft paper, not laid down, fixed to the overmount at the upper and right edges. There is some time staining to the edges. Apart from two dark specks and some lighter traces of foxing, and some faint, minor handling creases, this work is in overall very good original condition.
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