Etude pour "L'équation des bleus mouvants"

Details

FRANTISEK KUPKA (1871-1957)
Etude pour "L'équation des bleus mouvants"
signed 'Kupka' (lower right); stamped with signature 'Kupka' (on the reverse)
gouache on paper
11 1⁄8 x 11 in. (28.4 x 28 cm.)
Painted circa 1929-1931

Provenance

Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris (by May 1964).
Royal Marks Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 3 November 1978, lot 373.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker, Kupka: Pastels et gouaches, 1906-1945, May-June 1964, no. 63.
Milan and Rome, Galleria del Levante, Kupka, April-May 1965, no. 23 (illustrated).
Stockholm, Galerie Aronowitsch, Frank Kupka, 1967, no. 12 (illustrated).

Further details

Pierre Brullé has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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Lot Essay

This work is a study for the oil Equation des bleus mouvants, painted in 1929-1931. The arithmetic terminology in the title for this body of works suggests that the artist was referring to Plato's cosmology, according to which geometric shapes are emblems for ideas and perfect visualizations for the immaterial in the universe.

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