17Vojtěch Preissig

1873 – 1944

Art Fundamental - Proportion

In the back there is a Waldes Gallery label ‘2156b’, in the back there is also a stamp NGP and VK 239/98. This is the last offered artwork from the famous cycle Art Fundamental in possession of Waldes family. Provenance: -Jindřich Waldes (bough off directly from V.Preissig for the Waldes Gallery) -1938, confiscated by Nazis (passed over to Zemská Gallery and later National Gallery in Prague) -restitution of the National Gallery in Prague (the so called Waldes restitution 1996, at the National Gallery Prague the painting is catalogued as VK 239/98) - a long term loan of the National Gallery in Prague (Kinsky Palace- drawing collection) Exhibited: -Vojtěch Preissig, The Memorial to the National Letters in co-operation with the Union of Czechoslovak Artists, National Gallery and State printing office in Prague from 22.10.-24.11.1968, Václav Špála Gallery, New Hall -Vojtěch Preissig (1873-1944), Prague Castle Riding School, 5.11.2004-30.1.2005 (Exhibition of Vojtech Preissig’s Life-Work) Published: - The Encyclopaedia of Czech Fine Art, author: ČSAV, published by Academia Prague, 1975, p.391 - Vojtech Preissig’s Life-work Guide, National Gallery in Prague, Prague Castle board, UMPRUM Prague, The Memorial to the National Letters, reproduced on p.45