Josef Lada - Winter (Slide on the Embankment) 1943, gouache on cardboard, 35,5 x 57 cm, signed and dated lower right: Jos. Lada 43, under the passepartout authentic notes in pencil ("Kadlak brejle / Novak Umprum") Provenance: - significant Prague collection Exhibited. Publicated. Expertise by Dr Pavla Pecinkova (renowned expert on the artist and author of the painter's exhibitions), enclosed. Dr Pavla Pecinkova, remarked: “Lada's typical winter villages are usually animated by children building a snowman, but the motif of skaters on a pond is also frequent. The present gouache develops this subject as an independent motif, like other works by Lada from the first half of the 1940s. The work convincingly bears all the hallmarks of Lada's undoubted works and matches the documented originals in its pictorial conception, the material used and the type of signature.” Further consulted with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Professor Jaromir Zemina, Dr Jiri Machalicky and Vladimir Lekes.