(1926) Four stories of white and black 10
František Kupka

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Woodcut, set of 26 prints on handmade paper (1926), 20×15 cm, 42×34 cm including frame
Origin: private collection Switzerland

Published
In the book Frank Kupka in white & black Arnauld Pierre Artists Bookworks, Liverpool University Press, 1998
in the catalogue František Kupka: Pioneer of abstraction, painter of Universe, Dallas – Wolfsburg – Prague 1997-1998, pages 166-170
in the catalogue František Kupka, from the collection of Jan and Meda Mládkových, ČMVU, Prague 1996, pictures numbered 159-195
in the catalogue František Kupka, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1989-1990
in the catalogue Kupka, Kunsthaus Zürich, 1976, pages 214-215
in the monograph František Kupka, Vachtová, 1968, page 206
in the catalogue František Kupka, NG Praha 1968, picture number 322
in the catalogue Kupka 1871-1957, NG Praha 2018, pages 134-141

Exhibited
Francouzský institut Praha, 14th Sept – 3rd Nov 2016

The highest price achieved in auction for Kupka´s oil on canvas – 78 million CZK in the year 2019, Galerie Kodl, Prague.
The highest price achieved in auction for Kupka´s graphic – 720 thousand CZK in the year 2018, auction house Sýpka, Prague.
The highest known price for Kupka´s graphics achieved in gallery sale – 500 thousand CZK in the year 2016, Prague.

The abstract work of František Kupka was favourably accepted by critics after the World War I for the first time. In the year 1925, Kupka stops painting completely to be able to prepare himself for the cycle Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir. He created hundreds of studies, nevertheless, most of them he destroyed. Kupka – in this cycle – tries to recapitulate his whole work on abstract form so far: he wants to express the set of rules which he came to not by intuition only but by long-term research. This Album fulfils the role of explanation of forms, morphological changes and relationships between them, and in fact it is the answer to the aspiration of his critics to put him to a category
Quatre Histoires de blanc et noir correspond to four different formal solutions. The cycle is formed by four sub cycles: organic, triangular, cosmic and vertical. Two o

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