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EMIL ORLIK Villa mit Garten.
Oil on canvas board, circa 1900. 380x430 mm; 15x16 7/8 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Acquired Grisebach, Berlin, May 31, 2003, sale 109, lot 125 by the current owner, Marc R. Goldschmidt Trust.
Orlik (1870-1932) was a Czech painter and printmaker. He was born in Prague and was steeped in the city's turn-of-the-century thriving avant-garde art scene. Orlik studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where he developed an interest in etching, with which he became extremely proficient, producing intensely detailed and nuanced prints. He became a member of the Vienna Secession, a group of avant-garde artists who sought to challenge the artistic conventions of the day. He was also a prolific book illustrator, creating designs for works by Goethe, Schiller, Kafka and other famous authors.
