Emil Filla Czech Cubist Oil on Canvas Portrait – June 6, 2019
Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring a cubist portrait and mirror. Signed Emil Filla on the lower left corner. One label affixed to verso of the upper left corner inscribed FROM THE GALLERIES OF ASSOCIATED AMERICAN ARTISTS 711 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK with red wax seal. Stamped on canvas of verso C^2 02588. Attributed to Emil Filla (1882-1953, Czech). 90.5 x 60 cm (35.6 x 23.6 inches). Framed size: 100 x 69.5 cm (39.4 x 27.4 inches). PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate
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Emil Filla
Emil Filla (1882-1953) was a Czech painter whose works melded aspects of Cubism and Fauvism in his still lifes, landscapes, and figurative works.
Born on April 4, 1882 in Chropyne, Moravia (present-day Czech Republic), he went on to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague between 1903 and 1906. From there, he joined Osma, a Czech group with ties to the German Expressionists. Filla was living in Paris before World War I, where he adopted the Cubist style of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. During the 1920s, he continued painting in a style which utilized multiple perspectives and stylizations of form.
At the onset of the World War II, Filla was imprisoned by the Gestapo and sent to the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald. Surviving the camps, he returned to Prague. From there his work took on a subdued and traditional quality, and often focused on scenic landscapes. The artist died on October 7, 1953 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Today, his works are held in the collections of the Olomouc Museum of Art in the Czech Republic, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Museum Kampa in Prague, among others.
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