Antonin Machek
(Padlazice near Chrast 17751844 Prag)
A wall decoration: an exotic landscape with rhododendrons, a pheasant and a bird of paradise, gouache on silk, 240 x120 cm, mounted as a roller blind, damaged (losses of colour, buckles, tears, particularly in the lower area), (Hu)
The Czeck painter and well-known portraitist Antonin Machek started his career in the tradition of Late Baroque and Rococo. „In the wallpaintings one can feel die influence of his teachers A. Tuvora und L. Kohl and the exotism of rococo and with its antique and architectural motifs the spirit of early classicism with which Machek decorated in Chrast castle near Pardubice the residence of the bishops of Königgrätz... “ (cited by Ludek Novàk, Antonin Machek, Prague 1962, p. 197).
Illustrated and catalogued by:
Ludek Novak, Anton Machek und Linz, Kunstjahrbuch der Stadt Linz, Wien-München 1969, Cover and p. 33: “In a town house in Linz there are two large format pictures on silk with oriental blossoms and exotic birds and butterflies in between”.
Provenance:
Private property Gmunden, since c. 1850.
Specialist: Dr. Brigitte Huck
Dr. Brigitte Huck
+43-1-515 60-378
19c.paintings@dorotheum.at
10.04.2019 - 14:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 2,500.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 2,000.- to EUR 2,500.-
Antonin Machek
(Padlazice near Chrast 17751844 Prag)
A wall decoration: an exotic landscape with rhododendrons, a pheasant and a bird of paradise, gouache on silk, 240 x120 cm, mounted as a roller blind, damaged (losses of colour, buckles, tears, particularly in the lower area), (Hu)
The Czeck painter and well-known portraitist Antonin Machek started his career in the tradition of Late Baroque and Rococo. „In the wallpaintings one can feel die influence of his teachers A. Tuvora und L. Kohl and the exotism of rococo and with its antique and architectural motifs the spirit of early classicism with which Machek decorated in Chrast castle near Pardubice the residence of the bishops of Königgrätz... “ (cited by Ludek Novàk, Antonin Machek, Prague 1962, p. 197).
Illustrated and catalogued by:
Ludek Novak, Anton Machek und Linz, Kunstjahrbuch der Stadt Linz, Wien-München 1969, Cover and p. 33: “In a town house in Linz there are two large format pictures on silk with oriental blossoms and exotic birds and butterflies in between”.
Provenance:
Private property Gmunden, since c. 1850.
Specialist: Dr. Brigitte Huck
Dr. Brigitte Huck
+43-1-515 60-378
19c.paintings@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 10.04.2019 - 14:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 03.04. - 10.04.2019 |
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