Lot 52
Jan Václav Mrkvička (1856 - 1938) SKETCHBOOK OF DRAWINGS - STUDY OF PORTRAITS

Late 19th/early 20th century
Pencil on handmade paper
26 x 20,5 cm (h x w)
Signed on first drawing in Cyrillic letters: "IRM"

Starting price
35 000 CZK
   |   1 346 €
Price realized
80 000 CZK
   |   3 077 €
price without premium

A master of classic painting and drawing techniques, his most significant achievements are in scenes of everyday life, although he also worked in the historic painting genre. He became a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1918. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1921. The sketchbook contains seventeen pencil drawings of portraits of people, some wearing Bulgarian folk costumes, with names in Cyrillic letters.