Composition

Details

František Foltýn (1891-1976)
Composition
oil on canvas
32 x 23 5/8 in. (81.3 x 60 cm.)

Provenance

Milan Heidenreich, Gothenberg.
Acquired from the above by present owner in 1990.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Sale room notice

This Lot is Withdrawn.

Lot Essay

Composition was produced in 1927, four years after Foltyn moved to Paris from Brno, and presents a manifestation of the dramatic transformation his artistic ambitions underwent after his encounter there with contemporary abstract artists. The contrasting yet harmonious arrangement of intersecting geometric shapes reflects Foltyn’s theories about the underlying rhythms of the cosmos that link space, music, rhythm, form and colour into a coherent image. Along with František Kupka, who was one of his lecturers at the academia Grande-Chaumiere, Foltyn has been considered one of the most important Czech painters of non-figurative art.

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