45František Kupka
1871 – 1957
Woman / Landscape

Woman / Landscape
Item description
Description of the period of creation in words
1905
Technique

Oil, carton, painting on the back

Dimensions

75 x 49,5

Signature

unsigned

Short item description
Label Waldesova obrazárna No. 2323, stamp NG Prague M 1628, restitution Waldes W 2323, NG 03839, published: Ludmila Vachtová – František Kupka (1871–1957), Prague 1968, catalogue No. 28, Kupka – Waldes, painter and his collector, Prague 1999, page. 176, 177, 328, exhibited: Kolín nad Rýnem – Mnichov – Vídeň – Praha 1967–1968, Praha – Valdštejnská jízdárna, 22. 3. – 30. 4. 1968, catalogue No. 19. It is the last paintig of Frantisek Kupka which was gained by Jindrich Waldes. The picture is mentioned in the catalogue of Jan and Meda Mládek‘s collection, according to which it is (the page Krajina) an unfinished version, belonging to the study Švýcarská krajina (at present it is a part of Meda Mládek Foundation’s collection). It is possible to take it that it is a future Kupka’s wife on the page with the picture Žena, on the page with the picture Krajina it could be Kupka himself. The picture belongs among few Kupka’s oil-paintings from the famous Waldes’ picture gallery. There is a restorer rewiev available – concerning a possible remove of the crossing on the page Krajina.

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