Carnaval de Nice

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection.

The canvas, painted in a Cubist manner, was shown at the gallery of Z. Sklenar at the summer exhibition in Litomyšl, and then in Prague. In the monograph, the critic described the painting as “a mass of masks in the form of geometric figures cut from coloured paper.” The impression of accidents taken out from the endless stream of the carnival is aggravated by the fact that the canvas itself was cut by the author after its creation. The work was stored in the Toyen’s estate and, after being auctioned by the Paris branch of Sotheby’s auction house along with the portrait of Toyen of 1923, was sold for 6 million Czech crowns.