Lot 75
  • 75

František Kupka

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • František Kupka
  • Folk Festival in Neuilly (LIDOVÁ SLAVNOST V NEUILLY)
  • signed Kupka lower left
  • charcoal on paper
  • 61 by 46cm., 23¾ by 18in. (image size)

Provenance

Jindřich Waldes, no. W 2158
Confiscated in 1940
National Gallery, Prague, 1940-1996, no. K 6584
Restituted to Jíří Waldes, son of Mr. Jindřich Waldes, in 1996
Sale: Meissner-Neumann, Prague, 27 April 2002, lot 225
Purchased at the above sale

 

Exhibited

Cologne, Munich, Vienna, Amsterdam & Prague, Frank Kupka 1871-1957, 1967-1968, no. 195
Prague, The Rudolfinum Gallery, Kupka - Waldes, The Artist and His Collector, 1999, no. 236, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Jiří Hlušička, The Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art, Prague, 2004, p. 207, no. D154, catalogued; p. 13, pl. 1, illustrated

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. Not examined out of its frame and behind glass. The left corner is missing. there is a tear of approximately 10 cm length to the center of the left edge; a diagonal tear of approximately 7 cm length to the lower quarter of the composition; a jagged tear of 5 cm length to the lower quarter; a 3 cm tear along the right edge; and some paper loss to the lower right corner.
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Catalogue Note

Executed in 1902.