Lot 30. Desire

Josef Capek
(1887 – 1945)
Created: 
1939

oil on jute canvas
55 x 38 cm
signed lower left: Capek
dated lower right: 39.

Provenance:
– significant collection Prague

Publicated:
– Catalogue raisonné of Josef Capek's artistic works, part three: oil paintings, Pavla Pecinkova, published by the 8smicka Foundation in Humpolec in 2023, reproduced on p. 679

Expertise by the recognized expert and author of the Catalogue raisonné of the Works of Josef Capek, Dr Pavla Pecinkova, dated 16. 2. 2026, enclosed.
Record of the inspection of the painting Touhy by J. Capek in the depository of the National Gallery in the Veletrzni Palace on 29. 9. 1998, enclosed.
Expertise on the painting technique and authenticity by Mojmir Hamsik, dated 20. 6. 1998, enclosed.
Restoration expertise of Mgr. Biliana Casadiego from 1998, enclosed.
Laboratory Report dated 8. 7. 1998, enclosed.
Further consulted with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Professor Jaromir Zemina, Dr Jiri Machalicky and Vladimir Lekes.

Starting/Selling price
3.800.000 Kč
  |  
EUR 158 330
Estimate
5.000.000–8.000.000 Kč
  |  
EUR 208 330–333 330