Lot František Kupka - Ovale d'Acier Ovale d'Acier

oil and gouache on paper
41 x 48.5 cm (oval format)
signed lower right: Kupka verso old estate stamps and stamp “Frank Kupka 7, Rue Lemaitre Puteaux (Seine)”

Provenance:
– Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris (Galerie Karl Flinker was a well-known Parisian gallery active from the 1960s to the 1980s, trading in paintings by the painter Frantisek Kupka, for whom it organized an exhibition in 1964)
– Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin
– significant private collection

Exhibited:
– “Kupka” Pastels and gouaches 1906–1951, Galerie Karl Flinker Paris, May 26 – June 30, 1964. The exhibition took place at the Karl Flinker gallery in collaboration with Frantisek Kupka's daughter, Mrs. Martinel-Kupka.

Publicated:
– “Kupka” Pastels and gouaches 1906–1951, authors of texts: Jean Cassou, Denise Fédit, editor: Pierre Tisné, published by Verlag Gerd Hatje Stuttgart in 1964, reproduced full-page

Confirmation of authenticity attached by Vladimir Lekes, the main author of Kupka’s Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings (published with cooperation of Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery, National Gallery Prague, Belvedere Vienna, and Kupka´s copyright holder Adagp Paris). Vladimir Lekes is also listed in Guide international des experts et spécialistes, published in France.
Confirmation of authenticity attached by Pierre Brulle dated January 12, 2006. (Curator of the exhibition Frantisek Kupka – The Way to Amorfa, National Gallery in Prague, November 30, 2012 – March 3, 2013).
"Condition report" attached by the restorer Mrs Veronique Roca (France) dated February 23, 2023.