(1932) Little angel
Toyen

Popis

Two-coloured lithography on the paper, 1930s, 16 x 10 cm, 37 x 30,5 cm (including frame), signature in the right lower corner.
Origin: Auction House Prague
The highest achieved price for Toyen´s work (oil on canvas) in the foreign auction sale – 700 thousand €, May 2016, Auction House Thierry-Lannon & Associés in Brest

The highest price achieved in the home auction sale – 36 million CZK in the year 2017, Galerie Kodl
The highest price achieved in the home auction sale for print – 216 thousand CZK in the year 2012, Galerie Kodl
The highest price achieved in the home auction sale for drawing – 1.1 million CZK in the year 2009

The coloured lithography of the Little Angel creates complementary counterpart to a similar graphics of two girls. It probably came to being in the 1930s when Toyen was engaged in working on book a magazine illustrations the most. The religious theme is completely unique in the work of Toyen that is why this is an illustration of a specific template. The gothic window arch, of which every architectonic component is depicted in a detail, is not typical for Toyen either. Just as her faith, this building has a big rift also. The figure of the Little Angel does not have a realistic human appearance; its character is more the one of a puppet.
This lithograph appears in the auctions in the Czech Republic on rare occasions only. The last time it was offered in 2007.

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