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Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957)
Lot 221 PROPERTY FROM THE HUBERTUS WALD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957)

Autour d'un point

Closed8 February 2012

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GBP 46,850

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Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957)
Autour d'un point
signed, dated and inscribed 'Kupka 1911 à Jean de Vigne Rouge' (lower right; faded)
watercolour and pencil on paper
8½ x 8¾ in. (21.6 x 22.4 cm.)
Executed in 1911

Jean des Vignes Rouge, a gift from the artist in 1952.
Anonymous sale, Blache, Versailles, 26 February 1978, lot 55.
Galerie Tarica, Paris (no. YOK7).
Hubertus Wald, Hamburg, by whom acquired from the above in March 1978.

Specialist note

This work is sold with a photo-certicate from Pierre Brull©e.


The mount is inscribed with a poem by Jean de Vignes Rouges, the first owner of the work:

'Eclosion d'une fleur, d'une idée d'un être
Rouge et neuf, dans le monde, il pénétre
Par les bleus, verts, en flux circulaire, accueilli
Et, de la corne d'abondance l'avenir jaillit'