Modernist genre scene in Turkestan / Central Asia (today area of Uzbekistan, Kirghistan, South Kazahstan) by good-listed Czech painter and sculptor Karel Soucek (born 1885, date of death unknown).
On the back of the painting there is an original artist's inscription in Czech: Večer v Kirgizské stepy / "Turkestan" ( in English translation: evening in Kirghisian steppe/Turkestan).
The artist studied at the beginning by sculptor Jindr, Rihy, then at the art school in Praque and later in Russia. he settled in Tiflis , worked as teacher of drawing and exhibited here. In Tiflis he created the monument of Georgian writer A.Mizandari, painted portraits of Georgian nobility ( prince Argutinsky-Dolgoruky). Lived short time in Krasnovodsk, and since 1918 became Professor of Art School in Samarkand (in those time: Soviet Turkestan, now: Uzbekistan), from where he took motifs for his paintings). In 1922 he came back to Praque.

Literature : Prof.Toman"Dictionary of Czech artists"(in Czech), Praque, 1960.

Inscription: signed lower right, on the back of cardboard - original artist´s inscription on Czech: "Večer v Kirgizské stepy / Turkestan”. 

Technique: oil on canvas, original frame.

Measurements: unframed w 26 1/3" x h 19 2/3" (67 x 50 cm ),  matted and framed 32 1/4" x h 25 1/2" (82 x 65 cm ).

Condition: in very good condition.