Lot #752: EMIL FILLA - Zeny hlavu doprava (Woman's Head to the Right) - Pencil drawing

   

Artist: Emil Filla (Czech, 1882-1953).
Title: "Zeny hlavu doprava (Woman's Head to the Right)".
Medium: Pencil drawing.
Date: Composed 1934.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 in. (270 x 216 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed with the intials and dated, lower right. Light grey watermarked wove paper. Very good condition; a few fox marks; inscription verso which does not telegraph through to recto. Comment(s): A companion piece to the similar composition "Hlava zeny oprena o ruku." Filla was a leader of the avant-garde in Prague between World War I and World War II and was an early Cubist painter. Image copyright © The Estate of Emil Filla. [27715-2-800]