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Title: Man with a pipe and beer (Gamekeeper)
Date: year 1934
Technique: oil on canvas
Signed and dated: lower right J. C. 34
Painting dimensions: 52.5 x 38 cm
On the reverse: author's inscription with the title of the painting, exhibition label from Umelecka beseda, stamp from exhibition in Galerie Goltzova tvrz
Exhibited: On Umelecka Beseda exhibition in the Municipal House of the Capital City of Prague from 19 January to 24 February 1935, catalog number 7.
Exhibited: XI. exhibition Galerie Goltzova tvrz from March 1 to June 8, 2008, Golcuvv Jenikov, catalog number 144.
Exhibited: REDISCOVERED MASTERPIECES from private collections, from 21 November to 30 November 2019, exhibition space Galerie Zlata husa, Dlouha 12, Prague 1, the exhibition was organized by the company Starozitnosti-Galerie USTAR in cooperation with company Art collections URBAN, the painting is reproduced in catalog on pages 22 and 23.
Literature: Josef Capek, Jaromir Pecirka, Statni nakladatelstvi krasne literatury, Prague, 1961, reproduced in full page under No. 107.
Expert report: PhDr. Pavla Pecinkova, CSc.
The work will be included in the prepared book list of the author's work.
This painting is a well-known, playful and humorous work that fully captures the author's optimistic view of the world.
This work is a well-known oilpainting by Josef Capek, whose provenance is documented up to the first owner of this oilpaiting: Josef Capek dedicated it in 1935 to Vaclav Rabas on the occasion of his 50th birthday. The photographer Jiri Hecko received this painting from Rabas's heirs. Now it is part of an important private collection.
This Capek's oil is reproduced in black and white in the monograph Jaromir Pecirka: Josef Capek, Prague 1961, under No. 107, with the name Gamekeeper. According to data in the archive Jaroslav Slavicek file, a photograph of this oil has been preserved in the estate of Josef Capek, which also bears the name Gamekeeper.
The presented work belongs to the series of Capek's Hunters, which he has been developing since the early 1930s. It is an important motif of his so-called Orava period, when he thinks about elementary values of life. Capek did portray peasants, hunters and fishermen as genre figures, but as representatives of a spontaneous, natural relationship to life, living in accordance with the laws of nature and the cosmos.
A small drawing sketch with a compositional variant of the same figure was in the estate of Josef Capek.
