Lot description
oil on canvas, 66,5 x 75 cm, signed and dated lower right: Kupka 1910. Provenance: purchased by Jindrich Waldes directly from Frantisek Kupka (Waldes archive – Purchase contract attached, dated: January 19th, 1921.); Private collection of Stefan Osusky, a close friend of Jindrich Waldes and Frantisek Kupka. Osusky acquired the painting Pivoines (rouges et roses) from Jindrich Waldes after many requests; Bailly Gallery, Paris; Private collection; Certificate of authenticity from Vladimir Lekes, chief author of the Catalogue of Oil Paintings by Frantisek Kupka (published in collaboration with the Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery, the National Gallery in Prague, the Austrian National Gallery Belvedere, and the exclusive holder of the painter's copyright, the French state company Adagp Paris), registered in the Guide International des experts et spécialistes, published in France, enclosed. The work will be included in the appendix of the only officially approved holder of the copyright to the painter's catalogue of works; Certificate of authenticity by Pierre Brullé dated November 24, 2025 (author of the exhibition Frantisek Kupka – The Road to Amorpha, National Gallery in Prague, November 30, 2012 – March 3, 2013), enclosed; Further consulted with Dr Irena Zantovska Murray HonFRIBA, Professor Jaromir Zemina and Dr Jiri Machalicky. The focal points of the canvas, characterized by many shades of red, pink green, blue, white and light brown, are peonies in a vase, masterfully painted in several different color tones ranging from red to white. The vase is placed on a round garden table, with the painter emphasizing the circular form in his depiction with striking shades of blue. In the background is the lush green vegetation of a flower bed.
