Lot 446: OLIVA Viktor (24. 4. 1861 Nove Straseci - 5. 4.

OLIVA Viktor (24. 4. 1861 Nove Straseci - 5. 4. 1928 Prague) Our official Indian ink, watercolour heightened with white on paper, 13,5 x 8,5 cm, mounted, glazed, undated, signed with initials lower left, labels of Divis art market in Prague dated 1939 on the reverse. Czech painter and illustrator, he studied under F. Sequens at the Academy of Art in Prague, then in Munich and Paris. He was influenced by the work of his friend L. Marold. He created chiefly portraits and large-scale paintings following the historicizing stream in art. See T 2/223, NECVU 2/584.