Lot 527: SPILLAR Jaroslav (1869 Plzen - 30. 11. 1917

SPILLAR Jaroslav (1869 Plzen - 30. 11. 1917 Dobrany) Standing female nude Coloured chalks on paper, 66 x 24,5 cm, framed, glazed, undated, signed lower right with initials. The painter rendered an allegorical subject - probably the personification of Spring, making use of Impressionist brushwork and palette. The quality of the painting brings it close to the work of another leading Symbolist Czech painter - J. Preisler. Czech painter, he studied at the Academy of Decorative Arts in Prague under professor Zenisek and Schikaneder, then under M. Pirner at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. He was concerned with Naturalism but included characteristic contemporary sentimental and idealizing features in his work. See T 2/552, B 9/748, NECVU 2/838.