An oil on canvas painting depicting a still life with a bottle and fruits signed lower left: Emil Filla. The artwork combines Cubist and Fauvist features. Framed. Emil Filla, 1882 to 1953, is known for Cubist still life painting and sculpture. The beginnings of modern Czech art and painting, particularly Cubism, are inextricably linked with the name Emil Filla. After training under Franz Thiele and Vlaho Bukovac at the Prague Fine Arts Academy, he traveled extensively before joining other young artists, among them Prochazka and Kubin, to found the group Osma, the Group of Eight, in 1907. The group was oriented toward both the Paris Fauves and the German movement Die Brucke. One of a kind artwork. Collectible European Abstract Modernist Fine Art.