oil on canvas 73 x 99 cm signed and dated lower right: TOYEN 29 Provenance: - collection of poet František Halas  (František Halas was a close friend of Toyen. Since 1930 he has been involved with Jindřich Štyrský, Toyen, Adolf Hoffmeister, Vítězslav Nezval, Emil Filla and others in the literary and art form of the Erotic Revue.) - collection of Dr. Ivo Rotter, National Gallery Belvedere, Vienna   Exhibited: - „Jindřich Štyrský a Toyen“, Aventinská mansarda, Prague, March 11 – March 30, 1930, cat. no. 13, purchased for 1500 CZK by the poet František Halas - „Výstava obrazů Štyrského a Toyen“, Umělecká beseda, Prague, November 18 – December 4, 1931 - „Štyrský – Toyen: artificialismus 1926/1931“, Východočeská galerie, Pardubice, June 25 – September 6, 1992; Galerie umění, Karlovy Vary, September 17 – November 1, 1992; Středočeská galerie, Prague, November 11, 1992 – January 10, 1993 - „Toyen“, Galerie u Kamenného zvonu, Prague, May 12 – August 6,  2000 - „Beyond Klimt“, National Gallery Belvedere, Vienna, March 23 – August 26, 2018, reproduced in exhibition catalogue, p. 258 - exhibited as a long-term loan at National Gallery Belvedere, Vienna   Publicated: - Rita Bischof, Toyen: das malerische Werk, Neue Kritik, Frankfurt am Main, 1987, reproduced, fig. no. 16 (listed as „Bild“) - Artificialismus, Jindřich Štyrský a Toyen, Středočeská galerie 1993, reproduced, p. 31 - Karel Srp, Toyen, Argo, Galerie hl. m. Prahy, Prague, 2000, reproduced, p. 74, fig. no. 66  This is one of the Toyen’s masterpiece from 1929.  Consulted with Annie Le Brun and Georges Goldfayn, close friends of Toyen, in August 2018. Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery is grateful Le Brun and Goldfayn for recognition of the paitning. Consulted with Professor Jaromír Zemina, Dr Jiří Machalický and Mgr Alena Havlíková. Expertise by Dr Karel Srp attached, dated 7 February 2006, Prague. Confirmation of authenticity attached.  At this item the buyer’s commision is reduced to 18 % incl. VAT and copyright fees „Droit de Suite“.