Mid-20th-Century Cubist School, Still Life With Guitar

Mid-20th-Century Cubist School, Still Life With GuitarAn interesting mid 20th century cubist still life depicting a guitar by Czech artist, H J Goschala (b. 1945). The Cubist movement was revolutionary in its approach. Artists Pablo Picasso and George Braque sought to convey more about a subject by bringing several views together in the same image. By doing so, they reflect the reality that we rarely see an object from one set angle as our perspectives continually change. Part of the fun of cubism is

He was friends with Albert Marquet

a Cambridge-educated barrister from Somerset

Three tidy repairs with corresponding patches on the reverse

Signed ‘E Kimelmann’ in the upper right

One historic repair

The portrait is housed within a contemporary ornate handmade frame

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We love the quiet introspection in this piece and you can almost hear a clock ticking

000 achieved for ‘Shipping Off A Pier’ at Bonhams in 1998

It’s interesting to note that she’s wearing rings on either side of her fourth finger as this highlights the fact she’s unmarried

Dow trained in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and later at the ateliers of Rudolphe Julien and Carolus Duran

It’s possible that he could be a religious figure carrying the bible