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| | Art/Auctions: Twentieth Century Art, day auction, Christie's, Nov. 10, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | One of the artist's whose works seldom appear at auction is Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) and Lot 629, "Usine," show above is a fine example. |
 | | The 23 1/4-by-28 1/8-inch oil on canvas was painted circa 1929-30 and is a great Precisionist work that is conservatively estimated at $60,000 to $80,000. |
 | | The catalogue notes that Delaunay was a major proponent along with Kupka and Francis Picabia of Orphism, which was "championed by poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, who extolled the movement for taking Cubism in a more lyrical, pure direction." |
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