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Dimensions: height: 47 cm.
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Provenance: Milan Heidenreich (acquired by the present owner)
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Exhibited: Passau, Museum Moderner Kunst (travelling exhibition), Tschechischer Kubismus, Emil Filla und Zeitgenossen, 1991, illustrated in colour
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Literature: Prague, exhibition-catalogue of the National Gallery, Otto Gudfreund, 14.12.1995-14.4.1996 (catalogue raisonne being prepared by G. Setlík), p. 202-203, no. 78, illustrated
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Notes: In 1910 Gutfreund studied in Paris with Bourdelle at the Académie Grande Chaumière. On his return to Prague in 1911 he joined the Group of Plastic Artists. In 1912-13 he created sculptures which are amongst the earliest three-dimensional cubist works. Interned during World War I, he moved on his release to Paris where he lived from 1918-1920 experimenting with synthetic cubism.