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Moderní Zivot - Kavárna I, Kavárna II, Jazz II, Krám
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Otto Gutfreund (1889-1927)
Moderní Zivot - Kavárna I, Kavárna II, Jazz II, Krám
each numbered 'G1/6' (on the underside); one inscribed 'KAVARNA',one inscribed 'KRAM' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: approx. 7 7/8 in. (19 cm.) each
Each conceived circa 1924-1925 and cast in bronze after the artist's lifetime.
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Moderní Zivot - Kavárna I, Kavárna II, Jazz II, Krám
each numbered 'G1/6' (on the underside); one inscribed 'KAVARNA',one inscribed 'KRAM' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: approx. 7 7/8 in. (19 cm.) each
Each conceived circa 1924-1925 and cast in bronze after the artist's lifetime.
4 (4)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Galerie Art, Prague, 30 April 2005, lots 283 - 386.
Norman and Suzanne Hascoe, by whom acquired at the above sale; their collection sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 June 2011, lot 146.
Anonymous sale, Stair Galleries, Hudson, 23 June 2012, lot 84A.
Norman and Suzanne Hascoe, by whom acquired at the above sale; their collection sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 June 2011, lot 146.
Anonymous sale, Stair Galleries, Hudson, 23 June 2012, lot 84A.
Literature
National Gallery, Prague, Otto Gutfreund, Exh. cat., with a catalogue raisonné of sculpture, 1996, no. 251, 252, and 255 (another version illustrated p. 248-249).
Exhibited
Prague, Alsova sín Umelecké Besedy, Otto Gutfreund: Kresby a drobné plastiky, May - June 1958, no. 31.
Prague, Národní Galerie, 1983 (p. 7416).
Prague, Národní Galerie, 1983 (p. 7416).
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