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František Kupka

Étude pour "Printemps Cosmique I"

Lot Closed

June 30, 11:07 AM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

František Kupka

1871-1957

Étude pour "Printemps Cosmique I"


signed Kupka (lower right)

gouache and pastel on paper

24 by 24.9cm., 9 3/8 by 9 3/4 in.

Framed: 60 by 60cm., 23 5/8 by 23 5/8 in.

Executed in 1911-20.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Pierre Brullé.

Galerie Louis Carré & Cie, Paris

Jeffrey Hoffeld & Co., New York

Royal Marks Gallery, New York

Royal S. Marks Collection, New York (sold by his estate: Sotheby's, London, 1st December 1993, lot 210)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

(possibly) Paris, Galerie Povolozky, François Kupka. Peintures Blancs et Noirs, 1921

Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Frank Kupka. Die andere Realität, 1995, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Punkaharju, Retretti Art Center, Robert Delaunay. Sonia Delaunay. Frank Kupka, 1996, no. 14, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Cosmos. From Romanticism to Avant-Garde, 1999, no. 165, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Cosmos: From Goya to de Chirico, from Friedrich to Kiefer. Art in Pursuit of the Infinite, 2000, p. 122, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Frank Kupka, 2002