Cubism in Prague. Works from the National Gallery

An exhibition of Cubist works from the National Gallery in Prague with works by Picasso, Braque and Derain, and a selection of pieces by the most representative Czech Cubist artists: painters Beneš, Čapek, Filla, Procházka, Kubišta and Špála, and sculptor Gutfreund.

The National Gallery in Prague has one of the most outstanding collections of Cubist art in the world and this is the first time it is exhibited outside of the Czech museum.

Seventeen paintings and sculptures by Picasso made between 1907 and 1918, and others by Braque and Derain, accompany a series of Cubist works made by the most prominent artists of the movement, the painters Beneš, Čapek, Filla, Procházka, Kubišta, Špála and the sculptor Gutfreund between 1900 and 1915. The works were acquired by Czech collector and art historian Vincenc Kramář, who assembled a remarkable collection of Cubist art and favoured the introduction of French culture in Czechoslovakia. Kramář was director of the National Gallery in Prague from 1919 to 1938 and bequeathed his private collection to the museum shortly before his death.