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Seated Girl, 1921

Leopold Museum Vienna,
© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/Bildrecht,
Vienna 2022
Gouache on paper
68.8×50.3 cm

Artists

  • Oskar Kokoschka

    (Pöchlarn 1886–1980 Montreux)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
After the horrors of World War I, Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) moved to Dresden, where he held an open-ended professorship from 1919 to 1923 at the Dresden Academy. During this time, the artist created numerous figural watercolors characterized by powerful brushstrokes and a veritable rush of colors. Kokoschka focused less on graphic elements than on a concatenation of often complementary color planes. The resulting “carpet-like” structure, which runs like a common thread through Kokoschka’s painterly and graphic oeuvre of the time, shows parallels to the “color shapes” of Paul Cézanne (1839–1906). Kokoschka’s paintings created in Dresden are among the best works brought forth by late-Expressionist painting.

AS, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Oskar Kokoschka
Title
Seated Girl
Date
1921
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Gouache on paper
Dimensions
68.8×50.3 cm
Signature
Signed lower right: Oskar Kokoschka
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 778
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
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).
Keywords
woman/girlsitting figure (fem.)hands on top of each other

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Provenance

Provenance research
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Oskar Kokoschka, Wien / Prag (bis 1938);
Bertha Patocková, Prag (1938-1960);
Familie Kokoschka (1960-1980);
Auktion: 29./30.05.1980, Karl & Faber München, 152. Auktion, Los 1515 (Abb. Taf. 3);
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (1980);
Charles Tabachnik, Toronto (1980-1986); (1)
Auktion: 19.11.1986, Sotheby’s New York, sale 5545, Expressionist Watercolors from the collection of Charles Tabachnik, lot 17;
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1986-1994); (2)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994)

  1. Sonja Niederacher, Oskar Kokoschka. Sitzendes Mädchen, Dossier vom 30.01.2020, S. 4f.
  2. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Fax von Mag. Andrea Jungmann (Sotheby‘s Wien) an Mag. Gabriela Simak (LMPS) vom 21.08.2000; Rechnung Sotheby´s New York vom 19.12.1986

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