Rudolf Kundera (1911-2005) Still Life With Fruits And Rose

Colorful and refined, this still life by the great Czech painter but adopted from Marseille, Rudolf Kundera. This is an oil on canvas framed in a modern frame which measures 37.5 cm by 46.5 cm and 24 cm by 33 cm without the frame. In excellent condition, it is signed and dated 75 lower right. It was at the initiative of Alfons Mucha that he left, in 1930, to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague where he obtained his diploma in 1936. He then obtained a scholarship for Rome, where he creates a whole series of paintings for churches, as well as landscapes and portraits. He acquired an important notoriety and notably became the friend of Bohuslav Martinů. At the start of World War II, he took refuge in Paris. He befriended the French, including the writer Claude Mauriac and the poet Paul Valéry. To escape the occupation he left Paris, by Nantes and Toulouse he reached the South of France. He will be received by Countess Lily Pastré in Marseille, which hosts many artists. Realist painter, he is especially renowned as a colorist, with an assertive personality. He painted landscapes from Provence, folkloric scenes from Moravia, paintings inspired by the circus, and numerous portraits portraits of personalities of his time. He exhibited in several European countries and in the United States His paintings are in two museums in Marseille: the Cantini Museum and the Fine Arts Museum