František Kupka – Works on Paper

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1892	Kupka has graduated with diploma from Prague Academy of Art, starts his studies at Vienna Academy.
1896	Leaves for Paris, where he studies and illustrates both books and magazines. In his work, he demonstrates his leftist thinking, Spiritism and erotica in the full flow of life of the “holy hill” (Montmartre) in the name of fast changing love and ever flowing absinth.
1899	Lost in the big city Ink drawing and painting white lead on lithography (1899), 37×57 cm, 56×75 cm (including frame), signed, framed. PRICE: 16 000 € Illustrative photo View details
1899	The Fools Color lithograph on paper (1899), 49 x 71 cm, 63 x 96 cm (including frame), signed, framed. Published in the book Musaion VIII, 1928 PRICE: 16 000 € Illustrative photo View details
1900	Liberté! Black and white lithographs and ink drawing on paper (around 1900), 42 x 77 cm, 74×105 cm (including frame), signed, framed. PRICE: 20 000 € View details
1900	Ape´s King/Ape´s Painter Reproduction, framed, original published in the Album. PRICE: 100 € Zobrazit detail
1900	Resistance/The black idol Colored aquatint on paper (1900-1903), 34,5 x 34,5 cm, 58 x 56 cm (including frame), signed, framed. SOLD Illustrative photo View details
1901	In Paris, politically satiric weekly magazine, illustrated by Kupka, starts being published and is distributed around Europe – i.e. within Austro-Hungarian Empire also, where it provokes positive reactions – mainly in leftish thinking readers – and the outcome of this all is the Exhibition of 150 Kupka´s mostly satiric pieces of art, travelling around Czech.
1905	Kupka´s exhibition travelling around Czech – “the individualist becomes a socialist”. On the exhibition, the Album mainly satiric reproductions of Kupka is published – these become the most favourite decoration of youth rooms.
1905	The book Le Qantique des Qantiques is published in Paris. This book is written by Jean de Bonnefon a illustrated by Kupka. A series of symbolistic illustrations is oriented on a exotic sexuality, so typical for that time.
1905	Song of Songs (For her Master) Sheet from the illustrations cycle of bibliophile Song of Songs, two-color woodcut on paper (1905-1909), 23.5 x 22.5 cm, 48.5 x 46.5 cm (including frame), plate signed, framed. PRICE: 1 000 € Illustrative photo View details
1905	Song of songs (For my Lord) II Sheet from the illustrations cycle of bibliophile Song of Songs, two-color woodcut on paper (1905-1909), 23.5 x 22.5 cm, plate signed, unframed. PRICE: 1 000 € View details
1905	Song of Songs (The beauty with an earring) Sheet from the illustrations cycle of bibliophile Song of Songs, two-color woodcut on paper (1905-1909), 23.5 x 22.5 cm, 48.5 x 46.5 cm (including frame), plate signed, framed. PRICE: 1 000 € Illustrative photo View details
1905	Song of Songs (Beauty Sulamit) Sheet from the illustrations cycle of bibliophile Song of Songs, two-color woodcut on paper (1905-1909), 23.5 x 22.5 cm, plate signed, unframed. PRICE: 1 000 € View details
1911	Kupka presents his abstract studies, and screams of disapproval of the French critics sound over the tampering of the French tradition. “The guilty ones are the foreigners, Slavs or Americans with their cynical shamelessness and without French good taste “.
1912	He exhibits his first abstract paintings in Paris. The viewers are laughing, press is aghast, the public authorities in the state of shock.
1912	Study to “Fugue in Two Colors” Drypoint on Japanese paper (around 1912), 17 x 22,5 cm, 63 x 70cm (including frame), plate signed bottom left, stamped signed with Kupka’s signatures stamp at the right lower margins, framed. CENA: 6000 € Illustrative photo View details
1912	Sounds of the Clock Etching on paper (1912), 27,5 x 22,5 cm, 68 x 60 cm (including frame), plate signed bottom right, stamped signed with Kupka’s signatures stamp at the right lower margins, framed. PRICE: 5 000 € Illustrative photo View details
1913	Study to Amorpha Color etching on paper (1913), 24 x 16 cm, 63 x 52 cm (including frame), plate signed bottom left, stamped signed with Kupka’s signatures stamp at the right lower margins framed. PRICE: 5 200 € Illustrative photo View details
1913	Study to Amorpha black and white Etching on paper (1913), 24 x 16 cm, 63 x 52 cm (including frame), plate signed bottom left, plate signed, stamped signed with Kupka’s signatures stamp at the right lower margins, framed. PRICE: 4 000 € View details
1914	Immediately after the World War I breaks out, he volunteers for becoming a soldier. After the victory in the year 1918, he comes back from the front in the rank of the lieutenant.
1919	Jindřich Waldes becomes his patron and collector.
1920	White rhythms Woodcut on paper (around 1920), 25×40 cm, 47×61 cm (including frame), plate signed bottom right, stamped signed with Kupka’s signatures stamp at the left lower margins, framed. PRICE: 2 000 € Illustrative photo View details
1921	Untitled 1921, etching on paper, sheet size 51×33 cm, size of picture 23×15 cm, plate signed right bottom a stamped signed with Kupka’s signatures stamp at the right lower margins, unframed. PRICE: 2 000 € View backside View details
1922	First monograph about Kupka, which was written by writer of French origin Arnould Grémilly is published. The Czech critics admire him and they seek for him in Paris to talk with him about new fine art.
1923	Kupka summarized his artistic views in the book *Creation in the visual art.*.
1925	He stops painting and works on the album of black and white woodcuts Four stories of black and white. At the end of the year 1926 he published this album on 25 folios by on his own cost in 300 prints. This graphic volume nevertheless is not paid attention to and becomes the financial catastrophe for Kupka. Many years later it is labelled to be the first abstract album and is published as reprint in France, Great Britain and in the Czech Republic.
1926	Kupka is given the order of French Legion of Honour.
1926	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Introductory folio of the four stories – connection of humans, nature and knowledge into energy gushing up and coming back again. Woodcut on paper, folio number 2 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), plate signed K. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Introductory folio of the first story – embryo of being. Woodcut on paper, folio number 3 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Sowing the seed. Woodcut on paper, folio number 4 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Intake of seed. Woodcut on paper, folio number 5 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Genesis. Woodcut on paper, folio number 6 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Genesis Woodcut on paper, folio number 7 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir What will follow (prototype of the question mark). Woodcut on paper, folio number 8 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Introductory folio of the second story – the beginning of fragmentation. Woodcut on paper, folio number 9 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Fragmentation. Woodcut on paper, folio number 10 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Fragments. Woodcut on paper, folio number 11 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Connecting fragments. Woodcut on paper, folio number 12 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Conneting fragments (temple). Woodcut on paper, folio number 13 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Solidness of connection. Woodcut on paper, folio number 14 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Introductory folio of the third story – universe. Woodcut on paper, folio number 15 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Energy. Woodcut on paper, folio number 16 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Pulsating energy – beginning of the transformation. Woodcut on paper, folio number 17 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Pulsating energy – beginning of transformation. Woodcut on paper, folio number 18 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Creation of matter. Woodcut on paper, folio number 19 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Matter. Woodcut on paper, folio number 20 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Introductory folio of the fourth story – verticals, diamonds and on trapezoid. Woodcut on paper, folio number 21 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Chaos. Woodcut on paper, folio number 22 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Arranging. Woodcut on paper, folio number 23 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Genesis of structure. Woodcut on paper, folio number 24 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Connection. Woodcut on paper, folio number 25 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
	Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir Firm shape (with energy ascending). Woodcut on paper, folio number 26 of the volume of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20 x 15 cm, 42,5 x 34,5 cm (including frame), signed on the front cover of the volume on the first 100 prints. PRICE FOR A FILE OF 26 PRINTS WITH COVER – SEPARATELY NOT FOR SALE: 50 000 € Illustrative photo View details
1927	His patron and collector Jindřich Waldes buys part large number of copies of Four stories of White and Black and successfully distributes it in USA.
1928	His first Czech monograph by Emanuel Siblík is published.
1930	He spends two months in Czech at Waldes´s home, is worshiped, gives interviews and speaks on radio, is being acquainted with prominent Czech intellectual. Leading Czech cubistic architect and chancellor of AVU Josef Gočár renews his professorship.
1930 – 1932	He paints cycle Abstraction that is published in catalogue Abstraction – Création: Art non figurative and, in the year 1946, it is published also in Prague.
1931	In Paris, the group Abstraction – Création is established, Kupka refuses presidentship and becomes one of the member.
1934	He is called by founding president of the Salon of Independents Paul Signac to provide his works to exhibition on the occasion of 50th anniversary of the Salon.
1935	He is called also by the director of Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the next year Kupka exhibits in New York.
1936	Collection of poems Conquête du silence including the original Kupka´s woodcut building on Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir is published in edition 225 pieces in France.
1946	He starts to exhibit at several exhibitions a year throughout the whole world.
1946	In Prague, Kupka´s great retrospective exhibition takes place and Kupka´s catalog to the exhibition is published. Czechoslovak state buys his works for National Gallery Nevertheless, the critics value more Kupka – the illustrator more than Kupka – the painter. He is disappointed and contrary to his original decision to spend the rest of his life in Czech he goes back to Paris.
1947	This is the last time, when he comes to Czech – he wants to present to municipal authority of Dobruška a portrait of his father, who used to be the official there. Not even after long waiting he is not accepted. He leaves the painting with an official in the hall. And after this incident he returns back to France and gives up the Czech citizenship.
1948	His admirer and publisher Žikeš prints in Prague in Czech, French, English and German languages his volume Album of Abstraction (16 prints of black on lithographic background) Due to lack of interest and minimum of sales, great part of the copies was probably discarded.
1948	Abstraction I Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 40.7 x 33.7 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction II Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 40.7 x 33.7 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction III Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 40.7 x 33.7 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction IV Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 40.7 x 33.7 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction V Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 40.7 x 33.7 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction VI Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 40.7 x 33.7 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction VII Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 40.7 x 33.7 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction VIII Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 40.7 x 33.7 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction IX Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 40.7 x 33.7 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction X Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 42 x 35 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction XI Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 42 x 35 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction XII Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 42 x 35 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction XIII Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 42 x 35 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction XIV Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 42 x 35 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction XV Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 42 x 35 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
	Abstraction XVI Serigraph with lithographic printing on paper (1948), 21 x 15 cm, 42 x 35 cm (including frame). PRICE: 350 € Illustrative photo View details
1951	Kupka is 80 years old and the commercial world gallery (in New York) buys for the first time great number of this paintings and starts to sell it throughout the world.
1956	Museum of Modern Art buys great number of Kupka´s most prominent paintings.
1957	Kupka dies in France and Musée National d´Art Moderne in Paris buys many of his paintings and founds a permanent hall of Kupka „Salle Kupka“.
1962	On the Paris market, first imitations – catalogized – of Kupka paintings and drawings appear.
1976	Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris publishes on the occasion of Kupka´s exhibition a reprint Four stories of white and black.
1990	In auction house Phillips London, Kupka´s oil on canvas achieves for the first time the price surpassing 500.000 USD (price with auction house fee).
1990	In aution Champin-Lombrail-Gautier, Enghien-les-Bains Paris the price of Kupka´s oil on canvas more than 1.000.000 USD (price with auction house fee).
1998	Liverpool University Press publishes a reprint Four stories of white and black and the Album Abstraction.
1999	Antiquariat Peter Meissner published the book KUPKA-WALDES Painter and his collector. It is the largest, most extensive and most comprehensive publication on the life and work of František Kupka and his relationship with the entrepreneur Jindřich Waldes. Buy the book.
2008	Galerie of Modern Art in Hradec Králové publishes for Kupka´s exhibition the catalogue Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir .
2016	In auction Auctionsverk, a world auction record for Kupka´s oil on canvas is achieved 2.553.000 € (almost 70.000.000 Czech, price with auction house fee).
2016	In auction Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery Prague, Kupka´s oil on canvas is sold for record 62.000.000 CZK (price with auction house fee.). This is the new Czech record for Kupka´s painting.

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Lost in the big city

The Fools

1900

Liberté!

1900

Ape´s King/Ape´s Painter

1900

Resistance/The black idol

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Song of Songs (For her Master)

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Song of songs (For my Lord) II

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Song of Songs (The beauty with an earring)

1905

Song of Songs (Beauty Sulamit)

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Study to “Fugue in Two Colors”

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Sounds of the Clock

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Study to Amorpha

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