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Four engravings The Four Times of the Day

admin — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:21:26 +0000

Four copperplate engravings representing the Four Times of the Day (morning, noon, evening and night) based on oil paintings from 1736 by the English painter William Hogarth. They are humorous depictions of life on the streets of London, the vagaries of fashion and the interactions between the rich and the poor. The copperplate engravings were made by Jones & Co in London.

London, 18th century, paper, copperplate, 4 pieces, each 25.5 x 20.5 cm

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Julius Horn, Church of St. Charles Borromeo in Vienna

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:31:21 +0000

Academic painter and graphic artist, born in 1900 in Prague, graduated from Prague's UMPRUM under František Kysela and Emanuel Dítě. He completed a number of foreign trips (France, Austria, Germany). He portrayed members of the Bať family and participated in ex libris exhibitions. Folk portraits from Zlín also form a significant part of his work.

Vienna, 1920s. 20th century, oil on canvas, signed bottom right: Julius Horn, canvas, 70 x 60 cm, frame 84 x 74 cm

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Vojtěch Bartoněk, Hunting

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:18:54 +0000

The subject of the painting is a figurative composition of the allegory of Hunting. The work is the work of a popular author of the late 19th century, a painter of everyday life in old Prague, Vojtěch Bartoňek (March 28, 1859 Prague – August 25, 1908 Prague). It was created in 1888 as part of a separate order for the decoration of the dining room of the apartment of the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Trades, iron wholesaler, politician and patron Bohumil Bondy (1832 – 1907) in the Černá růže palace at Na Příkopě 12. These magnificent and currently listed interiors were renovated in the Neo-Renaissance style by architect Josef Fanta in 1884 – 1888 and can be seen when visiting the representative business premises of the Moser company, which has been based on the ground floor of the building since 1925, from where it expanded, among other things, to the original dining room on the first floor in 1934, when the Bondy family moved out.

In addition to this work, there were paintings of Vintage, Ploughing, Harvesting, Fishing and Source. Všechno of them were presented to the public in the magazine Zlatá Praha year. VI, 1888 – 1889.

Vojtěch Bartoněk

Grandson of porcelain painter František Rebec. He was a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1873 – 1889) – after a three-year elementary course with Emanuele Roma, he trained at the Antique School of Antonín Lhota and then gradually in the studios of František Sequens and Maxmilián Perner. After graduating, he studied privately in Paris for another year. Initially, he dealt with historical and allegorical scenes. He soon abandoned the academic style of painting and switched to depicting genre scenes, in which he locally captured the atmosphere of Prague streets, markets, parks and courtyards, and later came to socially critical themes. In addition to producing successfully sold hanging paintings, he devoted himself to realizations in architecture (murals, mosaics) and restoration work. He illustrated Božena Němcová’s Pohorská veszéle and is known to have created several portraits. Since his studies, he regularly participated in exhibitions of the Krasoumná jednota, later Mánes and the Jednota umělců výtvarných. His works were often reproduced in Světozor and Zlatá Praže.

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Philips, Conversation

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:57:57 +0000

Central Europe, 20th century, oil, cardboard, original heavy frame (slightly damaged), 39 x 50 cm (frame 57 x 69 cm) signed lower right: Philips

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Mirat Urazayev, Natalis

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:49:41 +0000

Acrylic, canvas, date 2017, signed: Mirat 50 x 70 cm

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Demijohn with Anthony van Dyck paintings

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:02:34 +0000

Painted demijohn from the 19th century, decorated with tempera paintings referring to the works of Anthony van Dyck and Laurent.

Glass, tempera, 19th century, 51 x 38 x 38 cm

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Figures in a birch forest, Western Ukraine

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:24:29 +0000

Western Ukraine, 19th/20th centuries, signed unknown, oil on panel

Panel 73 x 45 cm, frame 82 x 54 cm

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Sergej Ischuk, Harmony with Nature

admin — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:41:09 +0000

A painting called Harmony with Nature painted in 2004 by the Czech modern painter Sergej Ishchuk (1970).

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Karl Max Rebel

admin — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:27:34 +0000

Carl Max Rebel (1874 – 1955), German painter

oil on canvas, canvas 25 x 25 cm, rám 34 x 34 cm

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Bohumil Mareček, Oujezd Chodsko

admin — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:27:34 +0000

Bohumil Mareček (1884–1962) was a prominent Czech painter, figurative artist and portraitist, who in his work seamlessly continued the tradition of Czech academic painting of the late 19th century. He first acquired his artistic foundations at the Prague School of Applied Arts under the guidance of professors Emanuel Krescence Liška, Felix Jenewein and Karel Vítězslav Mašek. He subsequently continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studios of renowned masters Vojtěch Hynais and František Ženíšek. He further broadened his horizons during private study trips to Munich and Rome, and after returning to Prague he began teaching at his own successful school of drawing and painting.
In his artistic work, Mareček focused primarily on figurative painting and portraits. He is particularly famous for his masterful depiction of female nudes in intimate and sensual moments, as exemplified by his famous painting “The Toilet” from 1930. His painting style was based on a rigorous academic approach, which gave him high technical proficiency. Thanks to this, his works are characterized by extraordinary detail and the use of subtle color tones.

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