119 František Kupka 1871 – 1957 Irregular form

Exhibited: - Gallery Karl Flinker, Paris, 1960, No. 34 - Gallery Charles Lienhard, Zurich, 1961, No. 37 (full-page illustration, coloured) Appended the expertize (authentication) from Pierre Brullé This is the unique study of one of the first abstract paintings of Kupka’s work. After it has been found that Kandinsky’s small water-colour painting, thought to be the first abstract expression of the modern painting, comes from 1913, this superiority is arrogated to Frantisek Kupka. The painting Irregular shapes, Invention has been made in 1911 and it is unexceptionable fact. And for the first time we can also compare one of the basic principles of Frantisek Kupka’s work – the principle of creation – appearing throughout his whole organical cycle. Composition was exhibited in the year 1960 in Karl Flinker gallery under the name Aspiration, 1924. After that the Zurich gallery Charles Lienhard purchased the composition and exhibit it in the year 1961 in Zurich. Painting was published in the catalogue Kunsthaus Zurich 1976, furthermore Frantisek Kupka – pioneer of abstraction, cosmos painter, National gallery 1997. And it is on the photo from Museum of modern art exhibition in Paris 1958. This composition is exceptional offer of Kupka‘s best period. Charles Lienhard catalogue is avaible with the painting.