Beneš Vincenc 1883–1979

Still life with fruit, 1940s.

oil, cardboard, frame, 32 × 41 cm, signed. PN V. Benes, exhibition label on the reverse stamp of Galerie Mánes
Vincenc Beneš, a former member of the famous Osma group, was an excellent landscape painter. He drew on local and European traditions and was influenced by Paul Cézanne, whose work he admired. After a short cubist period, he continued his beginnings and came to a distinctive, expressive and distinctively colourful expression. He developed a keen sense of rich colour palette and luminous transformations. characteristic of different times of the year and day. In the course of his career, the painter long life, he was inspired not only by Czech, but also by French and Mediterranean landscapes. An important part of his work are also still lifes with various types of flowers. His expression is lively and relaxed, the colour palette is sensitively graded.