Auction:
28.04.2019
Author:
Josef Šíma
Year:
(1891 – 1971)
Artwork:
Landscape with Stems
Created:
1930
Starting/Selling price:
294.120 EUR
Estimate:
352.940 – 509.800 EUR
Sold:
8.000.000 Kč / 313 730 EUR
oil on canvas
Dimensions: 70 x 91 cm
signed and dated lower right: "Šíma 1930"
verso signed by the author's hand: "Šíma"
Provenance:
- collection of the poet Theo Herkel Florin (purchased directly from the painter Josef Šima) / acquired from T.H. Florin by Stanislav Šmatlák and thence by descent to the present owner ( heirs of Stanislav Šmatlák)
- Stanislav Šmatlák's collection (purchased from T. H. Florin) - the painting was included in the auction by the Stanislav Šmatlák family
Exhibited.
- „Josef Šíma, Jan Zrzavý: paintings from important collections“, Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery, Mánes Praha, February 13 – 24, 2019
Expertise by Professor Jaromir Zemina attached.
Expertise by Dr Karel Srp attached.
Restoration report by academic painter Tomas Berger attached.
Consulted with Dr Jiri Machalicky and Alena Havlikova.
