Lot 15: ANTONÍN PROCHÁZKA

ANTONÍN PROCHÁZKA CZECH 1882 - 1945 VIEW OF PRAGUE CASTLE (POHLED NA HRADČANY) signed A. Procházka lower right oil on canvas 79 by 99cm., 31¼ by 39in.

Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, Pražské noci / Prague Nights: Czech Modern Art from the Hascoe Collection, 2007

Marcela Macharáčková, Antonín Procházka 1882-1945, Brno, 2002, p. 306, no. O 90, catalogued & illustrated (as Hradčany)
Jiří Hlušička, The Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art, Prague, 2004, p. 27, mentioned; p. 194, no. P57, catalogued; p. 67, pl. 38, illustrated

Sale: Art Consulting Brno, Prague, 13 May 2001, lot 213
Purchased at the above sale

Painted in 1909, Procházka sets the business of everyday life - couples walking arm in arm, a fashionable lady with a parasol, a man reading a newspaper - against the majestic, layered cityscape of Prague that rises to the Cathedral at the centre, the whole executed in thick, straight brushstrokes.