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Auction archive: Lot number 107

JAROSLAV HNEVKOVSKY (1884–1956) Adam and Eve

Auction 01.06.2017
1 Jun 2017
Opening
CZK350,000
ca. US$14,924
Price realised:
CZK550,000
ca. US$23,452
Auction archive: Lot number 107

JAROSLAV HNEVKOVSKY (1884–1956) Adam and Eve

Auction 01.06.2017
1 Jun 2017
Opening
CZK350,000
ca. US$14,924
Price realised:
CZK550,000
ca. US$23,452
Beschreibung:

JAROSLAV HNEVKOVSKY (1884–1956) Adam and Eve Starting price: 350 000 CZK (13 208 EUR) Hammer price: 550 000 CZK (20 755 EUR) Description dimensions: 91 x 98 cm (h x w) period: 1920s This work, whose sharp and saturated tones are not usually found in Czech painting, depicts Eve as she is handing the apple from the Tree of Knowledge to Adam. It was created during the artist's second visit to India undertaken upon an invitation from Rabindranath Tagore Hněvkovský interprets the Biblical scene against an Indian cultural backdrop, as can also be seen in another canvas from that period entitled Original Sin. He eventually published his impressions from the journey in his 1927 book Malířovy Listy z Indie. Oil on canvas. Signed on bottom right "Jar Hněvkovský."

Auction archive: Lot number 107
Auction:
Datum:
1 Jun 2017
Auction house:
Arthouse Hejtmánek
Goetheho 2
16000 Prag 6
Czech Republic
info@arthousehejtmanek.cz
+420 734 311 861
+420 222 264 881
Beschreibung:

JAROSLAV HNEVKOVSKY (1884–1956) Adam and Eve Starting price: 350 000 CZK (13 208 EUR) Hammer price: 550 000 CZK (20 755 EUR) Description dimensions: 91 x 98 cm (h x w) period: 1920s This work, whose sharp and saturated tones are not usually found in Czech painting, depicts Eve as she is handing the apple from the Tree of Knowledge to Adam. It was created during the artist's second visit to India undertaken upon an invitation from Rabindranath Tagore Hněvkovský interprets the Biblical scene against an Indian cultural backdrop, as can also be seen in another canvas from that period entitled Original Sin. He eventually published his impressions from the journey in his 1927 book Malířovy Listy z Indie. Oil on canvas. Signed on bottom right "Jar Hněvkovský."

Auction archive: Lot number 107
Auction:
Datum:
1 Jun 2017
Auction house:
Arthouse Hejtmánek
Goetheho 2
16000 Prag 6
Czech Republic
info@arthousehejtmanek.cz
+420 734 311 861
+420 222 264 881
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