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Franciska Clausen

(Denmark, 1899-1986)
Estimate
40 000 - 50 000 SEK
3 570 - 4 460 EUR
3 810 - 4 760 USD
Hammer price
75 000 SEK
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Franciska Clausen
(Denmark, 1899-1986)

”Nature morte med spadserestyk”

Signed F. Clausen and dated -25. Executed in Paris. Gouache 35 x 25 cm.

Provenance

The family Anderssons's collection, Bukowskis October 2012.
”Modernismens pionjärer - en avantgardistisk samling”.

Exhibitions

Academie Moderne, Paris, 1925.
Orgaard Museeum, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 11 February - 12 June 2011.
Kunstmuseet Brundlunds slot, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 25 June - 23 October 2011.

Literature

Sidsel Maria Söndergaar, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 2011, reproduced in colour page 104 and 270.

Artist

Franciska Clausen (1899-1986) was a Danish painter who holds a unique position in Danish art due to her early adoption of radical European movements in the 1920s, which she unsuccessfully fought to promote upon her return to Denmark. As a student of Moholy-Nagy and Archipenko in Germany, she primarily connected with Russian Constructivism through her work with collages. Thanks to Léger, she initially followed Cubism and Purism in Paris, later transitioning to Neoplasticism. She became a staunch advocate of Mondrian and sought to expand the Mondrian schema.

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