Lot 139

Josef Štolovský (1879 - 1936) THE FLYING DUTCHMAN

The monologue of blue impasto tones that Štolovský uses shroud a port scene with two boats and several figures strolling along the harbor under the light of the moon on a clear night. The colors Štolovský employs for the sky are so bright are immediately striking, but this is hardly striking as the artist mixed his own colors for his paintings. After returning from his travels abroad, Štolovský established the Štolo company, where he perfected his old processes for producing colored paint.