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Franciska Clausen

(Denmark, 1899-1986)
Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.
Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.
Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.
Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.
Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.
Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.
Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.
Franciska Clausen, Constructivist model study.
Estimate
40 000 - 50 000 SEK
3 610 - 4 510 EUR
3 910 - 4 880 USD
Hammer price
80 000 SEK
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Franciska Clausen
(Denmark, 1899-1986)

Constructivist model study.

Signed F.C and dated 1925. Gouache on paper 22.5 x 20 cm.

Provenance

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

Exhibitions

Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, "Franciska Clausen", 1964, cat No 33.
Randers Kunstmuseum, "Mödested Paris", 1984, cat No 30, reproduced in catalogue page 50, mentioned page 21, 22 and 47.
Kunsthallen, Copenhagen, 1985, cat No 15, reproduced and mentioned page 10.
Mjällby konstgård, "I Légers ateljé", 10 July - 2 October, 1994, cat No 31.
Thielska Galleriet, "Nordisk konst i 1920-talets avantgarde" 18 November 1995 - 21 January 1996.
Oregaard Museum, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 11 Febrruary - 12 June, 2011, reproduced in catalogue page 269.
Kunstmuseet Brundlunds Slot, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921 - 1931", 25 June - 23 October 2011, reproduced in catalogue page 269.

Literature

Finn Terman Frederiksen, "Franciska Clausen - Udlandsåren 1899-1931", 1987, reproduced page 72.
Sidsel Maria Söndergaar, "Absolut Avantgarde - Franciska Clausen 1921-1931", 2011, reproduced in colour page 269.

More information

Also executed in oil with the title "Fuldfort" 1963.

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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