watercolor and pencil on paper
14.5 x 15 cm
signed lower right: Kupka
verso old gallery and exhibition labels

Provenance:
– collection Louis Carré
(In 1951 a well-known gallerist Louis Carré bought the painting directly from Frantisek Kupka. In the same year, at the age of eighty, Frantisek Kupka concluded his first representation contract with the prominent Parisian and New York gallerist Louis Carré (1897–1977). Kupka was introduced to Carré by painter Jacques Villon, a neighbour of his from Puteaux. At that time, Louis Carré represented internationally known artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jacques Villon, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, André Lanskoy, etc. According to Carré’s grandson, his grandfather bought at that time several dozen paintings from Kupka, which he later sold to internationally prominent galleries and museums, e.g. Museum of Modern Art in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in Tokyo, The Rothschild collection in New York, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid etc. Louis Carré also sold paintings to Jan and Meda Mladek (in 1975 they bought the crucial Kupka’s paintings Cathedral and The Fair).
– Jean Chevolleau, Saint Germain-en-Laye
– Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, 1980
– significant private collection, Paris

Exhibited:
– Gallery Louis Carré & Co., 10 Avenue de Messine, Paris VIII.
– Chefs-d´oeuvre de Collections privées de Gauguin á Kupka, Saint Germain-en-Laye, Hotel de ville, February 14 – March 8, 1967, exhibited under No. 117
– Éloge du petit format de Rodin á Kupka, Saint Germain-en-Laye, Musée Véra, December 4, 1978 – January 29, 1979
– Éloge du Petit format, Pontoise, Musée des Beaux-Arts, February 15 – April 15, 1979
– Célébration en Bleu, Exposition d'Art Moderne, Saint-German-en-Laye, May 8 – June 10, 1979), exhibited under No. 5
– Éloge du Petit format de Rodin á Kupka, Salle Valéry-Larbeau, Vichy, September 1979

Confirmation of the authenticity by Vladimir Lekes, main author of the Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings by Frantisek Kupka (published in collaboration with Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery, National Gallery in Prague, Austrian National Gallery Belvedere and the copyright holder of the painter by the French state company by Adagp Paris), registered in the Guide International des experts et spécialistes, published in France, enclosed.
Confirmation of the authenticity by Pierre Brulle dated July 2, 2007, enclosed.
Further consulted with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Professor Jaromir Zemina and Dr Jiri Machalicky.

An important and many times exhibited work by Frantisek Kupka.