Lot 80

Antonín Hudeček (1872 - 1941) SUMMER NIGHT

From the expert opinion of Prof. PhDr. Petr Wittlich, CSc: "Against the night sky, where the full moon shines behind the clouds, the dark silhouettes of trees and the gable of a rural building loom. The glow of the moon is faintly reflected in the mirror of the water surface. The painting belongs to the group of nocturnes painted by Antonín Hudeček during his stays in Okore between 1899 and 1901. Hudeček's nocturnes belong to the so-called mood landscape painting, which developed around the 1890s among the pupils of Mařák's academic landscape studio as an important manifestation of the new Art Nouveau art. The poetic note of this landscape painting is typical. The highlight of Hudeček's series of nocturnes was the large painting Psýché (1901, NG in Prague), where he included a walking female nude in the nocturnal scenery of water surfaces glistening mysteriously in the glow of the moon, thus giving the landscape the idea of a symbol of the poetic soul."