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Lot 97 | Oskar Kokoschka | Blatt VIII (From: Variationen über ein Thema)
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300
- 500
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KOKOSCHKA, OSKAR
1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Montreux
Title: Blatt VIII (From: Variationen über ein Thema).
Date: 1920721.
Technique: Collotype on thin card.
Depiction Size: 70 x 50cm.
Notation: . Monogrammed. As well as titled and signed in print.
Publisher: Verlag Richard Lányi, Wien (publisher).
Condition:
Minimally discoloured. Minimal worn sheet edges. Slight bumpings and creases in the margins. Verso remains of an old mounting as well as minimally discoloured and minimal stainings. Otherwise in good condition.
Verso equipped with typographical number "VIII". The print was created after a chalk drawing that the artist made in Vienna in 1920. Kokoschka sketched Camilla Swoboda, the wife of Karl Maria Swoboda, Max Dvorák's assistant at the time, while she listened to her hustband play the piano. There were probably over 20 drawings, 10 of which were reproduced in 1021 with an introduction written by Dvorák under the title "Variationen über ein Thema".
Cf. Literature:
- Wingler, Hans M./Welz, Friedrich: Oskar Kokoschka - Das druckgraphische Werk, Salzburg 1975, cat. rais. no. 140-144 (text on the creation of the series of works), as well as p. 40-42 (excerpt from Max Dvorák's foreword).
1886 Pöchlarn - 1980 Montreux
Title: Blatt VIII (From: Variationen über ein Thema).
Date: 1920721.
Technique: Collotype on thin card.
Depiction Size: 70 x 50cm.
Notation: . Monogrammed. As well as titled and signed in print.
Publisher: Verlag Richard Lányi, Wien (publisher).
Condition:
Minimally discoloured. Minimal worn sheet edges. Slight bumpings and creases in the margins. Verso remains of an old mounting as well as minimally discoloured and minimal stainings. Otherwise in good condition.
Verso equipped with typographical number "VIII". The print was created after a chalk drawing that the artist made in Vienna in 1920. Kokoschka sketched Camilla Swoboda, the wife of Karl Maria Swoboda, Max Dvorák's assistant at the time, while she listened to her hustband play the piano. There were probably over 20 drawings, 10 of which were reproduced in 1021 with an introduction written by Dvorák under the title "Variationen über ein Thema".
Cf. Literature:
- Wingler, Hans M./Welz, Friedrich: Oskar Kokoschka - Das druckgraphische Werk, Salzburg 1975, cat. rais. no. 140-144 (text on the creation of the series of works), as well as p. 40-42 (excerpt from Max Dvorák's foreword).
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