Lot 102
Cyprián Majerník (1909 - 1945) A BOUQUET IN A VASE

1931
Oil on canvas on cardboard
70,5 x 57,5 cm (h x w)
Lower right "Majerník 31"

Starting price
180 000 CZK
   |   7 200 €
Price realized
650 000 CZK
   |   26 000 €
price without premium

Majerník is a major figure in Slovak modern painting. He studied at the Prague Academy under Professors Josef Loukota and Jakub Obrovský. He belonged to "Generace 1909", a group whose members focused on social and national issues. He spent a short time in Paris in the early 1930s. After graduating from the Academy, he remained in Prague permanently. Majerník's work was heavily influenced by the rise of Nazism and his own ordeal with multiple sclerosis, which gave his work a darker tone.

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