Kupka, Gutfreund: Masters of World Art

Meda Mládek studied Art History in Paris during the first half of the 1950s. A key event that sparked her ambition to build an art collection and that determined its character was her meeting with the painter František Kupka, who was then living in virtual oblivion in a Paris suburb. Very soon, Meda Mládek became aware of his seminal contribution to the birth and development of abstract art and became determined to promote his contributions to the wider public. In due time, she managed to acquire an extensive collection of Kupka's tableaus and relevant drawings - studies for various large-scale paintings.