Attributed to Frantisek Kupka, it does not have a COA. Medium: crayon watercolor paper, 20.5 x 16.5 inches. Provenance: private owner from Spain. The owner brought the art from Spain over 40 years ago, and it was acquired as inheritence along with other antiques. It does not have a COA.
Biography: 1871- 1957. Frantisek Kupka was both an extraordinary person and a remarkable artist. His life story reminds of a fiction novel, and is full of surprising turns of fate. The same is true of his work. From a provincial apprentice, he had become a famous artist; one of those who not only enriched the painting of the early 20th century, but showed it a new direction.Repeatedly, Kupka stepped into the unknown. He had the chance to become a successful academic painter in Prague and Vienna. Likewise he could have remained a renown satirical draftsman, an admired illustrator, a symbolist, and a remarkable postimpressionistic painter. Yet, he became Kupka - a pioneer of non-figurative art of the 20th century.Unlike his more famous contemporaries, he was to taste the bitterness of no recognition, and was almost forgotten. During his life, this creator of new art experienced more disappointment than fame. His legacy was only recognized after his death.Frantisek Kupik was born in Opocno, Eastern Bohemia in 1871 and passed away in 1957 in Puteaux, France.

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