Autour d'un point

Details

Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957)
Autour d'un point
signed, dated and inscribed 'Kupka 1911 à Jean de Vigne Rouge' (lower right; faded)
watercolour and pencil on paper
8½ x 8¾ in. (21.6 x 22.4 cm.)
Executed in 1911

Provenance

Jean des Vignes Rouge, a gift from the artist in 1952.
Anonymous sale, Blache, Versailles, 26 February 1978, lot 55.
Galerie Tarica, Paris (no. YOK7).
Hubertus Wald, Hamburg, by whom acquired from the above in March 1978.

Exhibited

Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Tanz der Farben, Nijinskys Auge und die Abstraktion, May - August 2009, no. FK42 (illustrated p. 238; titled 'Newtons Scheiben').

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.

Brought to you by

Cornelia Svedman

csvedman@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2561

Lot Essay

This work is sold with a photo-certicate from Pierre Brull©e.

The mount is inscribed with a poem by Jean de Vignes Rouges, the first owner of the work:

'Eclosion d'une fleur, d'une idée d'un être
Rouge et neuf, dans le monde, il pénétre
Par les bleus, verts, en flux circulaire, accueilli
Et, de la corne d'abondance l'avenir jaillit'

More from Impressionist / Modern Works on Paper

View All