Lot 426 D

Georges Kars was a Czech painter but completed his artistic training with Franz von Stuck in Munich and became friends with Paul Klee. His works became increasingly influenced by the Cubists' way of painting. In the 1920s he created several portraits in which dark eye slits became characteristic. Towards the end of the 1920s, a soft and elegantly curved contour line appeared more and more often in his paintings; this is ultimately also reflected in the seated pose of the “Femme au tricot”.