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Auction: 
Evening Sale Prague at Expo 58 ART
Author: 
Josef Lada
Year: 
(1887 – 1957)
Artwork: 
Winter (Slide on the Embankment)
Created: 
1943
Starting/Selling price: 
EUR 75 000
Estimate: 
EUR 83 330–125 000
Sold: 
2.100.000 Kč

gouache on cardboard
35,5 x 57 cm
signed and dated lower right: Jos. Lada 43
under the passepartout authentic notes in pencil ("Kadlak brejle / Novak Umprum")


Provenance:
– significant Prague collection


Exhibited:
– Josef Lada (1887–1957) – jubilee exhibition, 2008 (27. 02.–04. 05.), East Bohemian Gallery Pardubice, curator of the exhibition Dr Pavla Pecinkova


Publicated:
– Jiri Olic, Lev Pavluch, Polana Bregantova Lada" published by Slovart, Prague 2008, reproduced in full-page colour as no. 631


Expertise by Dr Pavla Pecinkova (renowned expert on the artist and author of the painter's exhibitions), enclosed.

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

An outstanding work by an artist rarely seen in the art market (not merely in format dimensions).