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Learn and Fool – Act III Scene IV – Arraign Her First ’Tis Goneril. From the Portfolio King Lear, No. 157 of 275, 1963

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Lithograph on paper
45.3×35.5 cm

Artists

  • Oskar Kokoschka

    (Pöchlarn 1886–1980 Montreux)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) created literary illustrations not only as part of his early work but also in his late artistic period. The artist, who had read plays by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) when he was still in school, intensively explored the Bard’s play King Lear once more in 1963, creating these illustrations for it within a few months early in the year. The narrative spans 16 graphic works and follows Lear’s growing desperation, with which the artist personally identified, as well as the King’s fate of dying together with his daughters: Portrait of King Lear; Lear; Edmund; Lear and His Men Leaving Goneril’s Castle; Edgar; Lear, Regan, Goneril; Lear; Gloucester Led by an Old Man; Goneril and Edmund; Enter with Drum and Colours Cordelia and Soldiers; Gloucester and Edgar; Cordelia; Edgar and Edmund Fight; Lear with Cordelia in His Arms and Lear with the Body of Cordelia.

AS, 2023

Object data

Artist/author
  • Oskar Kokoschka
Title
Learn and Fool – Act III Scene IV – Arraign Her First ’Tis Goneril. From the Portfolio King Lear, No. 157 of 275
Date
1963
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Lithograph on paper
Dimensions
45.3×35.5 cm
Signature
Signed lower right: OKokoschka
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 6565
Inventory access
Accession 2020 2021
Selection of Reference works
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
  • Oskar Kokoschka. Expressionist, Migrant, Europäer, hrsg. von Cathérine Hug/Heike Eipeldauer, Heidelberg 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich, 14.12.2018–10.03.2019; Leopold Museum, Wien, 06.04.2019–08.07.2019).
  • Kokoschka. Das Ich im Brennpunkt, hrsg. von Tobias G. Natter/Franz Smola, Wien 2013 (Ausst. Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 04.10.2013–27.01.2014).
  • Die nackte Wahrheit. Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka und andere Skandale, hrsg. von Tobias G. Natter/Max Hollein, München 2005 (Ausst.-Kat. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 28.01.2005-24.01.2005; Leopold Museum, Wien, 31.05.2005-22.08.2005).
  • Hans Maria Wingler/Friedrich Welz: Oskar Kokoschka. Das druckgraphische Werk, Salzburg 1975.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Wingler/Welz 1975: 230
Keywords
man/boywoman/girlstanding figurepostures and gestures of arms and hands (in relation to another person)both legs bent, side by side, knees drawn up against the chesthead-gearhead bent backwards (fem.)

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Galerie Schöneck, Riehen, Schweiz (o.D.); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatsiftung, Wien (seit 2021)

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Rechnung der Galerie Schöneck vom 17.03.2021

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man/boywoman/girlstanding figurepostures and gestures of arms and hands (in relation to another person)both legs bent, side by side, knees drawn up against the chesthead-gearhead bent backwards (fem.)

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