oil on canvas
90 x 100 cm
signed and dated upper left: K. Cerny S 51

Provenance:
– collection of Dr. Pelikan, Prague
– significant Prague collection

Exhibited:
– K. Cerny – Paintings from 1914–1958, National Gallery in Prague, collection of modern art (12. 11.–31. 12. 1961), cat. no. 17
– Karel Cerny, series of paintings" Regional Gallery in Olomouc (September–October 1963), cat. no. 62
– K. Cerny – Selection of Painted Works 1934–1958 on the 60th Anniversary of his Birth and 10 th Anniversary of his Death, East Bohemian Gallery Pardubice (25. 10.–31. 12.1970), cat. no. 41
– K. Cerny – Selection of Painted Works 1934–1958 on the 60th Anniversary of his Birth and 10 th Anniversary of his Death, Vaclav Spala Gallery Prague (25. 03.–22. 04.1971), cat. no. 42
– Karel Cerny – selection of works, Gallery of the Capital City of Prague, Prague (13. 03.–5. 04.1 986), cat. no. 63

Publicated:
– Vytvarne umeni, year twelfth 1963, no. 2, reproduced on p. 87
– Plamen, volume 3/62 (front cover), reproduced
– Ceskoslovensky vojak, No. 24, reproduced on page 33
– Vojtech Lahoda – Karel Cerny, monograph, published by Odeon 1994, reproduced on page 57
– Karel Cerny 1910–1960, Colour and Existence – an inventory of painterly works, by Vojtech Lahoda, Prague 2003, reproduced on p. 66 and p. 199

Expertise by art historian Dr Nada Rehakova, enclosed.

Expertise by leading expert Professor Jaromir Zemina, enclosed.

Expertise by expert Karel Srp, enclosed.

Consulted further with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Dr Jiri Machalicky and Vladimir Lekes.

Important painting of the author.