EMIL FILLA (1882-1953)

Lot 263
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ID 1508063
Lot 263 | EMIL FILLA (1882-1953)
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$ 800 – 1 200
EMIL FILLA (1882-1953)
Hlava (Cubist Head)
signed, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'E. FILLA. '13 G.d'E 3/6' (on the upper edge)
bronze with dark brown patina
12 x 9 in. (31 x 22 cm.)
Conceived in 1913




Provenance

Acquired by the late owners, by July 1969.



Literature

Umělecký měsíčník, 1912-1913, vol. I, p. 237 (original plaster model illustrated).
P. Cannon-Brookes, Czech Sculpture, 1800-1938, London, 1938, p. 89 (another cast illustrated, fig. 133).
Emil Filla, Sochař, Práce z let 1913-1938, exh. cat., Severočeská galerie v Litoměřicích, 2002 (another cast illustrated).
J. Hlušička, Emil Filla, Brno, 2003, p. 132, no. 31 (another cast illustrated).
M. Lamač, Cubisme Tchèque, Paris, 1992, p. 106 (original plaster model illustrated; dated 1912).
S.A. Mansbach, Modern Art in Eastern Europe, From the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939, Cambridge, 1999, p. 41 (another cast illustrated, fig. 50).
V. Lahoda, Emil Filla, Prague, 2007, p. 121 (another cast illustrated, p. 120).
J. Setlík, Otto Gutfreund, Cesta ke kubismu, Praha, 2012, p. 201 (another cast illustrated).



Exhibited

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Czech Art in the Velvet Revolution, December 1990-April 1991, p. 27 (illustrated).
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