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Auction: 
4.2.2018
Year: 
(1896 – 1961)
Artwork: 
The Poet
Created: 
1934
Starting/Selling price: 
1 020 EUR
Estimate: 
1 570 – 2 350 EUR
Sold: 
34.000 Kč / 1 360 EUR
Sepia on paper
Cut out a passe-partout: 22 x 15 cm
Signed and dated lower right "Tichy 34"
Framed in an old original frame
 
Provenance: personal gift of Frantisek Tichy to the publisher Jan Pohorely.
 
The picture is accompanied by a collection of poems "Cas" (part of the sale price) from the poet Frantisek Halas with the reproduction of the image on the envelope and inside the book, which was printed on handmade paper in the number of 350 copies.
 
Consulted with Professor Jaromir Zemina and Dr Jiri Machalicky.
Confirmation of authenticity by Professor Tomas Vlcek attached.