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Property from a Distinguished European Collection

František Kupka

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October 23, 04:28 PM GMT

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6,000,000 - 8,000,000 EUR

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Property from a Distinguished European Collection

František Kupka

1871-1957

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signed Kupka (lower right)

oil on canvas

112,5 x 114,7 cm; 44¼ x 45⅛ in.

Executed between 1914 and 1922.


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

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1951 and at least until 1968)

Private collection, Geneva

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2015

Prague, Galerie SVU Manès, František Kupka, výstava, životního díla, 1880-1946, 1946, no. 152 (titled Nepopisný prostor)

Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Le mouvement dans l'art contemporain, 1955, no. 44, illustrated

Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Kupka, 1958, no. 34, pl. XIV, illustrated

Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Kupka, Peintures, 1910-1946, 1964, no. 6

Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Frank Kupka, 1981, no. 9, p. 153, illustrated in colour

Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum, Komische Bilder in der Kunst der 20. Jahrhunderts, 1984, no. 77, p. 34, illustrated

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The spiritual in art: Abstract painting 1890-1985, 1986, p. 332, illustrated (titled Nondescript space)

Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, František Kupka 1871-1957 ou l'invention d'une abstraction, 1989-90, no. 173, p. 239, illustrated in colour

New York, Claude Bernard Gallery, Kupka, paintings and gouaches, 1990, no. 2, illustrated in colour (titled Non-descriptive space)

Paris, Galerie Melki, Les grands maîtres du XXe siècle, 1993

Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art; Sendai, The Miyagi Museum of Art and Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, František Kupka, 1994, no. 97, p. 124, illustrated in colour

Emanuel Siblík, František Kupka, Musaion VIII, Prague, 1928

Michel Ragon, "Réhabilitation de Kupka", in Revue de l'art actuel, October-November 1958, p. 12

Edouard Ro-diti, "Geometry and after", in Arts Magazine, 1964, p. 43, illustrated

Chefs d'œuvre de l'art, Paris, 1965, no. 120, p. 2, illustrated

Joseph-Emile Muller, "L'art au XXe siècle", in Encyclopédie Larousse de Poche, Paris, 1967, fig. 41, p. 98, illustrated

Ludmila Vachtová, Frank Kupka: Pioneer of Abstract Art, London, 1968, no. 202, p. 160, illustrated (titled Indescriptive Space)

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Localización de móviles gráficos (1912-1913), 1998-99, p. 27, illustrated (titled Espacio no descriptivo)

Karel Srp, František Kupka: Geometrie myšlenek, Prague, 2012, no. 48, p. 84, illustrated in colour (titled Nepopisný prostor)

Vladimir Lekeš, František Kupka, Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, Prague, 2016, no. 179, p. 308, illustrated in colour