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Spirit of Dreams: Property from the Joseph H. Hazen Collection

František Kupka

Formes flasques

Auction Closed

May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Spirit of Dreams: Property from the Joseph H. Hazen Collection

František Kupka

(1871 - 1957)


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signed Kupka (lower right)

oil on canvas

26 by 26 in.   66 by 66 cm.

Executed in 1919-25.


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

Richard L. Feigen, Inc., New York

Royal S. Marks Gallery, New York

Joseph H. Hazen, New York (acquired from the above on 31 March 1966)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Ludmila Vachtová, Frank Kupka: Pioneer of Abstract Art, New York, 1968, no. 207, p. 31, illustrated in a photograph of the 1946 Galerie S.V.U. Mánes exhibition; p. 305, illustrated (titled Enfeebled Shapes (Feeble Shapes) and dated 1918-25)

Vladimír Lekeš, Agnes Husslein-Arco, Ludmila Lekeš and Eliška Zlatohlávková, František Kupka, Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, London, 2016, no. 195, p. 333, illustrated

Prague, Galerie S.V.U. Mánes, František Kupka: Výstava životního díla 1880-1946, 1946, no. 56 (titled Tvary chabé and dated 1925)

New York, Royal S. Marks, Kupka, Paintings, Pastels and Gouaches, 1909-1923, 1961, no. 6, n.p. (dated 1911-18)

New York, Royal S. Marks, Frank Kupka Retrospective, 1964, no. C

Jerusalem, Israel Museum; Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum; Los Angeles, The Art Galleries, University of California; Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California and Honolulu Academy of Arts, Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen, 1966-67, no. 56 (Cambridge;  dated 1913-18)

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Kunsthaus Zürich, František Kupka, 1871-1957, A Retrospective, 1975-76, no. 129, p. 226, illustrated (New York); no. 129, p. 176, illustrated (Zurich) (dated 1921-23)