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Auction: 
Evening Sale Prague at Expo 58 ART
Author: 
Antonín Chittussi
Year: 
(1847 – 1891)
Artwork: 
Sunset in Fontainebleau / Evening around Barbizon
Created: 
1879–1880
Starting/Selling price: 
EUR 16 250
Estimate: 
EUR 18 750–22 920
Sold: 
560.000 Kč

oil on canvas
26.5 x 39.5 cm
verso exhibition label S.V.U. Manes in Prague, exhibition stamp, and stamp of a French manufacturer of painted canvases


Provenance:
– collection of Augustin Biener
– significant collection, Prague


Exhibited:
– Czech Tradition in the 19 th Century, Exhibition S.V.U. Manes in Prague, catalogue number 198


Publicated:
– Golden Prague, 1913, fig. page 229
– Free Directions, No. 35, 1938–1940, fig. p. 28
– A. Chittussi, Sources, collection of good art, volume 30, published by Melantrich Inc. Prague, 1939, edited by Emil Filla and Josef Trager, reproduced under no.13 as Landscape from Creteil (1883)


Expertise by the renowned expert, author of the monograph and curator of the exhibition, Professor Roman Prahl, enclosed.

Further consulted with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Professor Jaromir Zemina, Dr Jiri Machalicky and Vladimir Lekes.