Lot 36. A) Zuidersee; B) Still Life with Suitcases

Karel Capek
(1890 – 1938)
Created: 
1931; 1930–1932

A) Zuidersee
1931
ink on paper
19x16cm
signed lower right: K.C.
inscribed by the author's hand lower left: Zuidersee verso inscription "K. Scheinpflug"

Provenance:
– from the estate of Olga Scheinpflug (wife of Karel Capek)
– donated to the current owner by Karel Scheinpflug Jr.

Publicated:
– Karel Capek's travelogue Pictures from Holland (1st edition Aventinum and Fr. Borovy, Prague 1932, p. 45)
– Lidove noviny (No. 407, 15. 8. 1931, p. 5)

B) Still Life with Suitcases
1930–1932
20.5 x 17.5 cm
photographic positive developed on paper
the photograph shows a set of Capek's travel suitcases
on one of them, a preserved sticker with the author’s original Prague address: Dr. Karel Capek Prague II, Ricni

Provenance:
– from the estate of Olga Scheinpflug (wife of Karel Capek)
– donated to the current owner by Karel Scheinpflug Jr.

Expert opinions of Dr Pavla Pecinkova, dated January 18, 2024, enclosed.
Further consulted with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Professor Jaromir Zemina, Dr Jiri Machalicky and Vladimir Lekes.

Starting/Selling price
50.000 Kč (za obě položky)
  |  
EUR 2 000 (for both items)
Estimate
70.000–100.000 Kč
  |  
EUR 2 800–4 000
Price realized
100.000 Kč