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Artists›František Kupka

František Kupka

1871–1957

Opočno, Czech Republic

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229

Works in Collection

467

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František Kupka was a Czech painter and illustrator who moved from realism to abstract art, pioneering Orphism.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (229)

An Absolute (Une Absolue) from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I

1953 · One from a portfolio of sixteen screenprint reproductions

composition: 12 11/16 × 12 11/16" (32.2 × 32.3 cm); sheet: 25 1/8 × 19 3/16" (63.8 × 48.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Replica (1946) of Vertical Planes

1946 · Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper

11 1/4 x 6 5/8" (28.5 x 16.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Replica of (1946) Solo of a Brown Stroke

1946 · Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper

5 1/4 x 8 1/2" (13.2 x 21.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Replica of Fugue in Two Colors: Amorpha, 1912

1946 · Gouache, ink, and pencil on paper

9 x 9 5/8" (22.9 x 24.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Syncopated Black Disks

1930 · Gouache and graphite on paper

9 3/4 × 7 13/16 in. (24.7 × 19.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled

1928 · Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper

7 3/4 x 12 1/4" (19.5 x 31 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Plate 11 (folio 13) from QUATRE HISTOIRES DE BLANC ET NOIR

1926

irreg. composition 8 x 6 1/16" (20.4 x 15.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Plate 12 (folio 14) from QUATRE HISTOIRES DE BLANC ET NOIR

1926

composition 8 x 6 1/16" (20.4 x 15.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Art Institute of Chicago

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