Prof. Frantisek Sindelar, Lying lady nude Lady nude lying and sleeping on a cloth on the forest floor, next to a rose blossom, impasto nude painting, oil on canvas, circa 1940, signed "Sind" lower right, inscribed on the reverse of the stretcher "Prof. Fr. Sindelár Zena a rúze (Woman and Lipstick)", minor paint chipping, in a curved, stuccoed and gold-bronzed frame, folding dimensions approx. 79 x 124 cm. Artist info: Czech painter (1887 Cimelice to 1947 Moravske Budejovice), source: Internet.

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