Oil on paper, painting. 8 x 9,6 in. (20,5 x 24,5 cm). Emil Filla (1882-1953, Czech). It is being sold in the manner or style of the artist. Painting depicts a still life.

Emil Filla was a Czech painter whose works melded aspects of Cubism and Fauvism in his still lifes, landscapes, and figurative works. Filla was living in Paris before World War I, where he adopted the Cubist style of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. During the 1920s, he continued painting in a style which utilized multiple perspectives and stylizations of form.