20th Century Art: A Different Perspective

20th Century Art: A Different Perspective

Property from a London Private Collection

Mikuláš Medek

Gold Cry I (Zlatý Křik I)

Lot Closed

November 29, 03:22 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Property from a London Private Collection

Mikuláš Medek

Czech

1926 - 1974

Gold Cry I (Zlatý Křik I)


signed and dated MEDEK 68 lower right

oil and enamel on canvas

Unframed: 120.5 by 80.5cm., 47½ by 31¾in.

Framed: 122.7 by 83.6cm., 48¼ by 33in.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Mikuláš Medek catalogue raisonné being prepared by Eva Kosáková Medková and Adéla Prochazkova.

Art Centrum, Geneva (acquired from the artist)
E. Wallitt, Geneva
Acquired by the present owner in 2003 
Dějiny a současnost [Past and Present], 1968, p. 7, illustrated
Bohumír Mráz, Mikuláš Medek, Prague, 1970, no. 87, p. 172, catalogued, np., illustrated
Prague, National Gallery & Brno, Mikuláš Medek: Malirske Dilo 1942-1974, exh. cat., 1990, illustrated
Lignano, Premio Lignano, Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, 1968, no. 146 (as Der golden Geschrei)
 

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