Study for ‘Justice’
Type:drawing
Year:ca. 1935
Size:34.00" x 27.50"
Medium:Pencil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
#22745 Exquisitely framed "Study for Justice" by Jan Matulka, ca. 1935. Image size: 24 1/2" x 18".
Jan Matulka ART FOR SALE
1890 Prague, Czechoslovakia - 1972 New York City. Known for: Cubist figure, landcape and still life painting.
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan Matulka became a leading modernist working with Stuart Davis to find a new type of Cubism based on distortion of forms. The totality of his work ranged from... Read full biography
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan Matulka became a leading modernist working with Stuart Davis to find a new type of Cubism based on distortion of forms. The totality of his work ranged from traditional to abstract, reflecting the changes in the art world of 20th century America. In 1907, he came... Read full biography
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan Matulka became a leading modernist working with Stuart Davis to find a new type of Cubism based on distortion of forms. The totality of his work ranged from traditional to abstract, reflecting the changes in the art world of 20th century America. In 1907, he came to the Bronx, New York where he had a poverty-ridden childhood with a mother who tried to raise a family by herself. From 1908 to 1917, he studied at the National Academy of Design, and in 1917,... Read full biography
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan Matulka became a leading modernist working with Stuart Davis to find a new type of Cubism based on distortion of forms. The totality of his work ranged from traditional to abstract, reflecting the changes in the art world of 20th century America. In 1907, he came to the Bronx, New York where he had a poverty-ridden childhood with a mother who tried to raise a family by herself. From 1908 to 1917, he studied at the National Academy of Design, and in 1917, received the first Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship with which he traveled and painted in the Southwest and Florida. His work from this period showed a turning towards a more abstract style, replacing his earlier realism. In 1919, he first went to Paris... Read full biography
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan Matulka became a leading modernist working with Stuart Davis to find a new type of Cubism based on distortion of forms. The totality of his work ranged from traditional to abstract, reflecting the changes in the art world of 20th century America. In 1907, he came to the Bronx, New York where he had a poverty-ridden childhood with a mother who tried to raise a family by herself. From 1908 to 1917, he studied at the National Academy of Design, and in 1917, received the first Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship with which he traveled and painted in the Southwest and Florida. His work from this period showed a turning towards a more abstract style, replacing his earlier realism. In 1919, he first went to Paris and then returned in 1927 on a scholarship from the National Academy. In Paris, he was exposed to Cubis... Read full biography
Jan Matulka - Art for Sale (7 available)
Two Boats on the Water
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1920
Size:14.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
inventory no. 5798
Nude with Unicorn
Type:Painting
Year:1944
Size:12.25" x 17.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
This brilliant example of Art Deco painting by Jan Matulka shows hints of the modern take on Cubism that the artist worked out with Stuart Davis. Matulka was born in Prague and came to America as a young man, and trained here and in Paris, where he became exposed to Cubism. He exhibited in New York, created illustrations for New Masses which advanced the interest of American workers, and worked for the Works Progress Administration in the Roosevelt years. This painting shows all the hallmarks of high Art Deco, with its stylized female nude with Classical features, its boldly-painted unicorn, and its exaggerated plant forms, all in a brilliant palette of cerulean blue, mossy green and deep black.
Indian Ceremony
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1920
Size:15.00" x 12.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Signed lower left.
Jazz Composition #2
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1927
Size:21.63" x 14.50"
Medium:Gouache
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Exhibited: "Songs Without Words: The Art of Music," Nassau County Museum of Art, November 20, -2021 through March 6, 2022.
Arrangement, New York
Type:Print
Year:c. 1925
Size:13.38" x 16.25"
Medium:Lithograph
Signed:Estate Stamp
Edition:16 of 16
Abstraction
Type:Painting
Year:1940-50
Size:31.00" x 26.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated