Czech Cubist master Southern France landscape 1924 oil painting by F. Foltyn ^Sale

Highly acclaimed artist Frantisek Foltyn (1891 – 1976) was engaged in landscape painting, still lifes, he liked to depict ordinary people, cities, the working class. Gradually, his work acquired the features of cubism and organic abstraction. His paintings were sold in Prague and Bratislava, and each time for a high price. This landscape, painted by the artist upon his arrival in France, bears all the characteristic features of Foltyn’s painting of that time: Strict contours of individual forms and a rather pronounced color scheme based on the contrast of warm and cold colors creates the impression of space and perspective. Signed and dated lower left. Private collection.
Size app.: 46 x 55 cm (roughly 18 x 21.7 in). Very Good condition, age wear. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 3 kg is going to measure some 5 kg packed for shipment
František Foltýn, Czech painter, his abstract works from the 20s and 30s of the 20th century are most valued. He learned porcelain painting, then studied at the University of Applied Arts, but did not finish his studies and fought in the First World War, after which he came to Slovakia, and features of expressionism and cubism appeared in his work. in 1922 he co-founded the Brno branch of the Group of Visual Artists and from in 1923 he was active in France , where he was a member of the Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square, a group of abstract artists in Paris, founded 1929 by Joaquín Torres García and Michel Seuphor). and Abstraction-Création group, a loose association of artists formed in Paris in 1931 to counteract the influence of the Surrealist group led by André Breton. In 1934 he returned to Czechoslovakia and settled in Brno. During his time in Czechoslovakia, he again returned to the realistic expression of the landscape, and then only temporarily, especially in the 1960s, expressed himself abstractly.