Portrait de femme voilée / Portrait of a woman wearing a black veil Crayon, aquarelle et gouache / Chalk, watercolour and gouache on paper Signé en bas à gauche /Signed on the lower left 77 x 52 cm Provenance: - Collection privée, Grande-Bretagne. - Collection privée Tchécoslovaque, ancienne collection du médecin de Hugo Scheiber qui encouragea l'artiste en Tchécoslovaquie avant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale Commentaire: Le travail de Scheiber s'intègre dans le cercle des artistes de Walden dont Franz Marc, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall et Oskar Kokoschka font partie. Provenance: -Private Collection, United Kingdom -Private Collection Czechslovakia. (The father of the previous seller worked as a doctor in Czechslovakia prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. He encouraged artistic talent amongst his patients, Hugo Scheiber being one of them.) - In 1921, Max Hevesi's exhibited Schieber's works alongside those of a Kádár at Salon in Vienna. This exhibition bought Scheiber's work to public attention, but of equal significance to that of Walden, founder of the avant-garde periodical 'Der Strum'. Scheiber's work was thus jettisoned into Walden's circle of artists, which included Franz Marc, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall and Oskar Kokoschka. -Like his avant garde contemporaries, including Gros, Scheiber wanted to capture the decadent post war café and cabaret society. The sensual woman depicted in 'Portrait of a woman wearing a black veil' must then be viewed a protagonist in the theatrical and dissolute nightlife.
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