Pravoslav Kotík

Pravoslav Kotík (1889–1970) was a Czech painter and graphic artist. The Art Institute of Chicago lists Four Men Planting a Tree (1927), Village Landscape (1954) and Composition with Four Figures (1964). Without presuming their visual treatment, these titles indicate distinct subjects: a group at work, a village landscape and a composition of figures.

The documentary record of Lidé u stolu continues after the artist’s death: an auction notice states that the work was exhibited in Cheb in February 1977, in Pravoslav Kotík. Obrazy, and then in Litoměřice in October–November 1978, in Skupiny, davy, zástupy. The same notice records provenance through the collection of Jaroslav Fröhlich in the Czech Republic, followed by private ownership in Switzerland. The work is also listed as no. 1, with an illustration, in Zuzana Tobolková-Kotíková’s catalogue devoted to the paintings and drawings in the Fröhlich collection, published in 2003.

Works recorded at auction

Dobiaschofsky

"Lidé u stolu" (Company at the table).

Oil on wood

Original catalogue wording

"Lidé u stolu" (Gesellschaft am Tisch).
Öl auf Holz

Date to be documented

Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed

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