Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from the Estate of Sir Sean Connery, sold partially to benefit The Connery Foundation
František Kupka
Complexe
Auction Closed
March 1, 08:32 PM GMT
Estimate
2,200,000 - 2,800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Sir Sean Connery, sold partially to benefit The Connery Foundation
František Kupka
1871 - 1957
Complexe
signed Kupka (lower left) and inscribed à Mr. Beauduin en toute sympathie. .K. (lower right)
oil on canvas
50.5 by 61.2 cm. 19⅞ by 24⅛ in.
Executed in 1912.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Pierre Brullé.
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弗朗迪斯科・庫普卡
1871 - 1957年
《複雜》
款識︰藝術家簽名 Kupka（左下）；題款 à Mr. Beauduin en toute sympathie. .K.（右下）
油彩畫布
50.5 x 61.2 公分；19⅞ x 24⅛ 英寸
1912年作
皮耶・布熱已為此作提供認證。
Nicolas Beauduin, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Yolande Jamet, Paris (daughter of the above; acquired by descent from the above circa 1960)
André Fourquet, Paris
Private Collection, France
Acquired from the above by the late owner in 2016
Art News, November 1957
Vladimír Lekeš, František Kupka. Catalogue raisonné des huiles, Prague, 2016, no. 206, p. 348, illustrated in colour (titled Composition)
Paris, Galerie la Boétie, Salon de la Section d'Or, 1912
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Kupka, 1958, no. 25, p. 21 (titled Complexes)
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, František Kupka, ou l'invention d'une abstraction, 1989-90, no. 164, p. 231, illustrated in colour (titled Composition)
New York, Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Czech Art in the Velvet Revolution, 1990-91, p. 23
Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art; Sendai, The Miyagi Museum of Art and Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, František Kupka, 1994, no. 87, p. 113, illustrated in colour (titled Composition)
Cairo, Musée Mahmoud Khalil, Galerie Horizon I, De l’Impressionnisme à la modernité, un siècle de peinture française, de Corot à Picasso, XIXe-XXe, 1998
Châteauroux, Musée Bertrand & Montpellier, Musée Fabre, La Section d’Or, 1912, 1920, 1925: le cubisme écartelé, 2000-01, no. 50, p. 187, illustrated in colour
Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Aux origines de l’abstraction, 2003-04, no. 36, p. 171, illustrated in colour
Prague, Národní galerie v Praze, Kupka Cesta k Amorfě, 2012-13, no. 39, p. 185, illustrated in colour
Paris, Grand Palais; Prague, Národní galerie v Praze and Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum, Kupka Pionnier de l'abstraction, 2018-19, no. 124, p. 155, illustrated in colour