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Plan bleu dans le rouge
Details
František Kupka (1871-1957)
Plan bleu dans le rouge
signed 'Kupka' (lower right)
gouache on paper
11 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (28.6 x 29.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1932
Plan bleu dans le rouge
signed 'Kupka' (lower right)
gouache on paper
11 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (28.6 x 29.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1932
Provenance
The artist's estate.
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, by whom acquired from the above.
Gimpel Fils, London, by 1965.
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich (no. 4556).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner on 1 November 1969.
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, by whom acquired from the above.
Gimpel Fils, London, by 1965.
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich (no. 4556).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner on 1 November 1969.
Exhibited
(Probably) London, Gimpel Fils, Kupka: Gouaches 1904-1945, 1965, no. 25.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Frank Kupka: 1871-1957, October - December 1975, no. 173a, p. 226 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, January - March 1976.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Frank Kupka: 1871-1957, October - December 1975, no. 173a, p. 226 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, January - March 1976.
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