20th Century Art: A Different Perspective
20th Century Art: A Different Perspective
Property from a Private Collection, France
Joža Uprka
Reading in the Garden
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Property from a Private Collection, France
Joža Uprka
Czech, 1861-1940
Reading in the Garden
oil on canvas laid down on panel
unframed: 61.5 by 97cm., 24½ by 38¼in.
framed: 78 by 113½cm., 30½ by 44½in.
Born in Kněždub in the southern part of what is now the Czech Republic, Uprka was a leading painter of rural Moravian life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work is exhibited notably at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, and at the gallery which bears his name in Uherské Hradiště.
The present work offers an interesting insight into Uprka's working methods. While elements such as the girls' profiles, the vibrant highlights of their dresses, and the blue ceramic jug are clearly discernable, details elsewhere have been defined more broadly, leaving the canvas visible.