Lempertz · Lot 213
Composition
Gouache
Original catalogue wording
Komposition
gouache
Auction date : 2024-06-05
Published result : 23940 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 12000
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František Kupka
From 1911 onward, Kupka paints works with no reference to the world of objects. Verticality and circular movement are among his lines of inquiry: the Centre Pompidou dates the beginning of his exploration of whirling motion to 1908, with *Petite fille au ballon*, through interlacing curves formed by the moving balloon. His training takes him from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he receives his diploma in the studio of František Sequens, to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, which admits him in 1892. Settling in Paris in 1896, he earns his living there as an illustrator for newspapers and creates posters for cabarets; in 1906, he settles in Puteaux.
His first solo exhibition takes place in 1921 at the Povolozky Gallery in Paris. In 1931, Kupka takes part in the founding of the Abstraction-Création movement, which he leaves in 1934; in 1936, he participates in the exhibition “Cubism and Abstract Art” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Enlisting as a volunteer in August 1914, he serves on the front in the Somme; in 1915, after falling seriously ill, he is evacuated to Paris. Appointed professor at the Prague School of Fine Arts in 1923, he remains in Paris and is entrusted with responsibility for Czech scholarship holders. From 1939 to 1945, he is a refugee in Beaugency with his wife, Eugénie Straub.
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9auction references
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6documented results with prices
Lempertz · Germann · Kornfeld · Genève Enchères · Dobiaschofsky · Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
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Works recorded at auction
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Lot 41
Untitled
Watercolour and gouache on paper
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel
Aquarell und Gouache auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2021-09-29
Published result : 24308 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 8000–12000
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Lempertz · Lot 29
Compliments (study related to Amorpha, Warm Chromatics)
Pastel
Original catalogue wording
Compliments (Study related to Amorpha, Warm Chromatics)
pastel
Auction date : 2021-06-17
Published result : 62500 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 28000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Kornfeld · Lot 385
Study for Flowers in Embroidery
Watercolour and gouache over a pencil sketch
Original catalogue wording
Étude pour Fleurs en broderie
Aquarelle et gouache sur esquisse au crayon
Catalogue period : 2019-06-13
Published result : 58000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 30000
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Germann
Étude pour Verticales et Diagonales, 1931
Watercolour and gouache on paper
Original catalogue wording
Étude pour Verticales et Diagonales, 1931
Aquarell und Gouache auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Germann
Study for "Grande nue", um 1904
Bleistift auf Seidenpapier auf Japanpapier aufgezogen.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Germann
Ohne Titel, ca. 1930/32
Gouache.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Genève Enchères · Lot 56
Composition
Grease pencil on paper
Original catalogue wording
Composition
crayon gras sur papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 11000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 8000–12000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Dobiaschofsky · Lot 575
“Composition in black and white”.
Gouache
Original catalogue wording
"Composition en noir et blanc".
gouache
Date to be documented
Published result : 5500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 8500
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- Reference record
- ARTIC · Reference link only; institutional text and images are not reproduced.
- ICCD-ArCo · CC-BY-4.0; Ministero della Cultura / ICCD-ArCo. Reference link only; no image copied.
- MNAV · Reference link only; institutional text and images are not reproduced.
- Met · CC0
- MoMA · CC0
- NDL · NDL Terms of Use (source attribution)
- NGA · CC0
- Documentary source
- Documentary source
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