Lot 37. Still Life with Fruit and Fish

Emil Filla
(1882 – 1953)
Created: 
1928

oil on canvas
37.5 x 45 cm
signed and dated lower right: Emil Filla 28.
verso old labels

Provenance:
– Christie's auction, London, 24. 05. 1990, lot 102
– Sotheby's, London, 22. 06. 2004, lot 184
– auction The Hascoe Family Collection – Important Czech Art, London, 13. 06. 2011, lot 58 (authenticated for Sotheby´s by the renowned expert and author of exhibitions and a monograph on Emil Filla, Professor Vojtech Lahoda), auctioned for CZK 3,000,000
– significant private collection, Germany

Exhibited:
– Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, Prague Nights: Czech Modern Art from Hascoe Collection, 2007

Consulted by Dr Frantisek Krejci Jr. (great-nephew and copyright holder of the painter).
Further consulted with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Professor Jaromir Zemina, Dr Jiri Machalicky and Vladimir Lekes.
Authenticity certificate enclosed.

Starting/Selling price
3.000.000 Kč
  |  
EUR 120 000
Estimate
4.000.000–6.000.000 Kč
  |  
EUR 160 000–240 000
Price realized
4.100.000 Kč