Lot 44 | Oskar Kokoschka | Anna Kallin

KOKOSCHKA, OSKAR
1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Montreux

Title: Anna Kallin.
Date: 1921.
Technique: Chalk on brownish paper.
Measurement: 49.5 x 69.5cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: OKokoschka.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.

The work will be included in the catalogue of Oskar Kokoschka's drawings and watercolours from 1916 onwards, which is currently being prepared. We are grateful to Dr. Alfred Weidinger, Linz, for his kind scientific support.

Provenance:
- Friederike Beer-Monti, New York
- Marlborough Fine Arts, London
- Private collection Hesse
- Private collection Austria

Exhibitions:
- Marlborough Fine Arts, London 1966, cat.-no. 94
- Marlborough Fine Arts, London 1969, cat.-no. 254
- Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura/National Museum of Art, Kyoto, 1978
- Musée d'Ixelles/Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, 1998/99
- Schlossmuseum Linz/Bröhan-Museum Berlin, 2004/2005
- Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz 2008
- Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso, 2014/15

Literature:
- Rathenau, Ernst: Oskar Kokoschka - Handzeichnungen, Volume V, Berlin 1977, ill.
- Exhib.-Cat. Oskar Kokoschka, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura/National Museum of Art, Kyoto, 1978, cat.-no. 75, ill.
- Exhib.-Cat. Österreichischer Expressionismus 1905-1925, Musée d'Ixelles/Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, 1998/99, p. 51, ill.
- Exhib.-Cat. Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Kubin. Graphiken aus einer österreichischen Privatsammlung, Schlossmuseum Linz/Bröhan-Museum Berlin, 2004/2005, p. 109, ill.
- Exhib.-Cat. Oskar Kokoschka. Ein Vagabund in Linz - wild, verfemt, gefeiert, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz 2008, p. 91, ill.

- Kokoschka is one of the defining portrait painters of his time
- His expressionist portraits are also always character portraits
- Kokoschka's mistress, the Moscow-born singer Anna Kallin, is depicted here
- Not offered on the art market for over 50 years.