Pre-Valentine Wonderful Sale
Lot 420:
Description
Keywords: Charles Kvapil, gouache painting, naiads, dancing figures, nude study, modernist, expressionist, French art, early 20th-century painting, signed artwork, collectible art
NO RESERVE Charles Kvapil signed gouache on cardboard painting. Signed lower right “KVAPIL.” He exhibited his first work in Anvers in 1908 at the Salon d’Anvers. In 1911 he exhibited in Munich, where his works showed an influence of Cubism, and that same year he exhibited at the Triennale de Bruxelles.He attended l’Académie des Beaux-Arts in Anvers. He began to exhibit in Paris in 1920 at the Salon des Indépendants. He painted his models in the studio, occasionally in front of his window with the hills of Montmartre in the background. He also painted in the countryside like the Impressionists, often working with groups of nudes. He had many exhibitions throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s in Paris. Kvapil’s paintings are bold and modern, his nudes and his flowers are strong and powerful.
Measurement: Art: 10 3/4 x 9 in. (27.3 x 22.9 cm.), Frame: 15 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (39.4 x 34.3 cm.) approx
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