Luděk Marold (1865 – 1898)

Spaniard – Toreador, circa 1893, oil on canvas mounted on cardboard, signed lower left L.M.; on the reverse, a stamp reading “Artistic Estate of Luděk Marold”. Painting dimensions: 52 × 28.5 cm; overall dimensions including the frame: 87.5 × 63.5 cm.

Provenance: Estate of Luděk Marold; private collection of Karel Pikl (1889–1967).

Note: This work is a variant of Spaniard – Toreador, deposited in the National Gallery in Prague under inventory number O 8,595 (Signboard for an Aunt’s Tobacco Shop in Prague, 1893, oil on wood, 93 × 27 cm).

Expert report: PhDr. Šárka Leubnerová