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František Kupka

Opočno 1871 – 1957 Puteaux

Der Koloss von Rhodos. Circa 1906

Watercolour and brush in black over pencil on Ingres laid paper. 19,3 × 12,6 cm (24,7 × 16,6 cm) (7 ⅝ × 5 in. (9 ¾ × 6 ½ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: František Kupka. Der Koloss von Rhodos. Circa 1906.

Estimate:

EUR 3,000

 

- 4,000

USD 3,690

 

- 4,920

Sold for:

5,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2018

19th Century Art, Wednesday, 30.05.2018

Information

Watercolour and brush in black over pencil on Ingres laid paper. 19,3 × 12,6 cm (24,7 × 16,6 cm) (7 ⅝ × 5 in. (9 ¾ × 6 ½ in.)). Signed in pen in black below the image to the right: Kupka. Stamp in blue on the reverse bottom centre: HOOS PRAHA. Slight foxing. Framed

Jindřich Waldes, Prague (1940 confiscated, 1940–1996 Národní galerie, Prague, 1996 restituted to his son Jiří Waldes) / The Hascoe Family Collection, Greenwich/CT (until 2011)

Date: Circa 1909. Accompanied by a confirmation (in copy) by Pierre Brullé, Basel, dated 2 May 2018

František Kupka. Prague, Národní galerie, 1946 / Kupka, 1871–1957. Písek, Vlastivědné muzeum, and České Budějovice, Dům umění, 1961/62 / Prague, 1965 / Frank Kupka, 1871–1957. Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Vienna, Museum des XX. Jahrhunderts; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, and Prague, Národní galerie, 1967/68, cat. no. 219 / Kupka – Waldes. The Artist and his Collector. Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum, 1999, cat. no. 219, ill.

Auction catalogue: Prague, Meissner-Neumann, 30.11.2001, cat.no. 41 / Jiří Hlušička: The Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art. Prague 2004, p. 26, p. 208, cat.-no. D156, ill. p. 14, plate. 2 / auction catalogue: The Hascoe Family Collection. Important Czech Art. London, Sotheby’s, 13.6.2011, cat.no. 76

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