Signed by hand

Drawing ink on the paper (1926), 16×11 cm (without frame), signed Toyen 1926 in the right lower corner, framed.
Origin: Auction House Prague
On the back side there is the confirmation that the drawing is the work of Toyen´s own hands and that it was a template for an illustration – stamp and signature of PhDr. František Dvořák 1998.
Similar drawings are known from so called Sketchbook, 1925, private collection Paris.
The same theme is on the picture Paradise of the Black People, 1925, private collection Paris (published in the monograph of Karel Srp, Toyen, Argo, 2000, page 32)
Exhibited at the exhibition “CZECHOSLOVAKIA – Tribute to a non-existing country”, Czech Centre, Paris, 2016