The Artist’s Sketchbook: Where Inspiration Finds Form
The Artist’s Sketchbook: Where Inspiration Finds Form
Property from the Collection of Albin Schram, Switzerland
FRANTIŠEK KUPKA | ETUDE POUR LA SÉRIE MACHINISME
Lot Closed
June 4, 01:14 PM GMT
Estimate
26,000 - 36,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
FRANTIŠEK KUPKA
1871 - 1957
ETUDE POUR LA SÉRIE MACHINISME
signed Kupka (lower right)
gouache and watercolour on paper
Unframed: 21.8 by 31.9cm., 8½ by 12½in.
Executed in the late 1920s.
This work is sold unframed
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Pierre Brullé.
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Sale: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 14th June 2003, lot 1330
Collection Albin Schram, Switzerland (purchased at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner
At the end of the 1920s, Kupka abandoned the pure abstraction of the previous years and embarked upon a series of paintings inspired by machinery. He drew and painted from close observation and developed a formal language that bridged figuration and abstraction. The series was completely unanticipated and in artistic terms was totally unique. Other examples from this magnificent series exist in the collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid.