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OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)

Lot 66
07.03.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
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£ 1 000 000
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ID 1163425
Lot 66 | OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)
Estimate value
£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)

Sommer I

signed with initials ‘OK’ (lower left)

oil on canvas

43 ¾ x 55 5⁄8 in. (111.2 x 141 cm.)

Painted in 1922





Provenance

Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin, by whom acquired directly from the artist on 6 October 1922.

Fritz Güttler, Schloß Deschkendorf, by whom acquired on 13 December 1922.

Karl Wilhelm Zitzmann, Erlangen.

Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin & Galerie Georg Caspari, Munich, by whom acquired on 28 September 1923.

Benkenkamp, by whom acquired on 10 January 1925.

Private collection, South Germany; sale, Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 3 March 1925, lot 82 (illustrated).

Hermann Lange, Krefeld, by whom acquired on 2 November 1925, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

P. Westheim, Oskar Kokoschka: Das Werk Kokoschkas in 135 Abbildungen, Berlin, 1925 (illustrated pl. 95).

C. Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1928, pp. 160 & 565 (illustrated p. 439).

W. Cohen, ‘Haus Lange in Krefeld‘, in Museum der Gegenwart, vol. I, no. 4, Berlin, 1931 (illustrated p. 162).

H. Platschek, Oskar Kokoschka, Buenos Aires, 1946, no. 27, p. 76 (illustrated pl. 27).

E. Hoffmann, Kokoschka: Life and Work, London, 1947, no. 120, pp. 160 & 308 (titled 'Summer - Woman Recumbent').

F. Schmalenbach, ‘Zu Kokoschkas malerischer Entwicklung‘, in Oskar Kokoschka, exh. cat., Basel, 1947, p. 15.

H. M. Wingler, Oskar Kokoschka: Das Werk des Malers, Salzburg, 1956, no. 148, p. 310 (illustrated pl. 53).

F. Schmalenbach, Oskar Kokoschka, London, 1968, p. 56 (illustrated).

E. Baum, ‘“Mutter und Kind": Ein Hauptwerk der Dresdener Zeit Oskar Kokoschkas', in Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Galerie, vol. 15, no. 59, Vienna, 1971, no. 72, p. 182 (illustrated pl. 72).

D. Schmidt, ''Bitte mit dem Weltkrieg aufzuhören, ich möchte arbeiten'. Oskar Kokoschka in Dresden 1916 bis 1923’, in Pantheon, vol. 44, Munich, 1986, p. 132 (illustrated fig. 12).

B. Dalbajewa, ‘Zwei Werke von Oskar Kokoschka in der Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister', in Dresdener Kunstblätter. Zweimonatsschrift der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, vol. 39, no. 6, 1995, pp. 189 & 193 (illustrated p. 193).

J. Winkler & K. Erling, Oskar Kokoschka, Die Gemälde 1906-1929, Salzburg, 1995, no. 163, pp. 97 & 98 (illustrated p. 98).

U. Bischoff, J. Metz & E. Hipp eds., Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Berlin, 2001, p. 107 (illustrated).

H. Spielmann, Oskar Kokoschka. Leben und Werk, Cologne, 2003, p. 213.

E. Frommhold & G. Söder, ‘Expressionismus in Dresden - Ursprung und Wandlungen', in Dresdner Geschichtsbuch, no. 12, Altenburg, 2007, p. 179 (illustrated).

C. Lange, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Lilly Reich: Möbel und Räume, Ostfildern, 2007, p. 37 (illustrated in situ, fig. 17).

B. Dalbajewa, 'Hans Posse und die "Moderne Galerie"', in Galerie Neue Meister Dresden, vol. I, Cologne, 2010, p. 376 (illustrated p. 375).

B. Dalbajewa, ‘Oskar Kokoschka‘, in Das neue Albertinum: Kunst von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart, Berlin & Munich, 2010, pp. 140 & 141 (illustrated p. 141).

B. Dalbajewa, ‘Kokoschka in Dresden. Beziehungsgeflechte und Stimmungslagen. Aus Briefen des Künstlers', in exh. cat., Kokoschka als Zeichner: Die Sammlung Willy Hahn, Dresden, 2011, no. 5, p. 43 (illustrated).

M. Giebe, 'Maler und Modell, Farbe und Licht. Beobachtungen zur Kokoschkas Malweise' in Patrimonia 380, Dresden, 2015, p. 50 (illustrated pl. 27, p. 52).

H. Delfs, Kokoschkas Selbstbildnisse aus dem Jahr 1923. Eine Bildmonographie – und Detektivgeschichte, Dresden, 2015, p. 21 (illustrated pp. 5, 20 & 78).

K. Erling, W. Feilchenfeldt & Fondation Oskar Kokoschka (ed.), Oskar Kokoschka. Die Gemälde Online (https://www.oskar-kokoschka.ch/en/1020/Online-catalogue), Vevey, no. 1922⁄9 (illustrated). Accessed in January 2024.



Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Oskar Kokoschka, March - July 1923.

Berlin, Galerie Goldschmidt-Wallerstein, Oskar Kokoschka, March - April 1924, no. 110 (illustrated).

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Frühjahrsausstellung, May - June 1924, no. 110, p. 13 (illustrated).

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Ausstellung Oskar Kokoschka, June - July 1927, no. 54.

Hamburg, Kunstverein, Europäische Kunst der Gegenwart. Zentenar-Ausstellung des Kunstvereins Hamburg, October 1927, no. 293, p. 50.

Cologne, Kunstsalon Hermann Abels, Kokoschka-Ausstellung, March - April 1929, no. 24.

Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle, Deutsche und französische Kunst der Gegenwart, June - July 1950, no. 127 (illustrated).

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Oskar Kokoschka. Aus seinem Schaffen, 1907-1950, September - October 1950, no. 45, p. 55 (illustrated p. 21; titled 'Sommer - liegende Frau' and dated '1918-20'); this exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Kunsthalle, November - December 1950; and Mannheim, Kunsthalle, January 1951.

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Art in Revolt. Germany 1905–25, October - November 1959, no. 40, p. 62 (illustrated p. 73).

London, Tate Gallery, Kokoschka, A retrospective exhibition of paintings, drawings, lithographs, stage designs and books, September - November 1962, no. 65, pp. 35 & 36.

Hamburg, Kunstverein, Oskar Kokoschka, December 1962 - January 1963, no. 32 (illustrated).

Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle, Gesammelt im Ruhrgebiet: Kunstwerke aus drei Jahrtausenden, May - July 1963, no. 136 (illustrated).

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Oskar Kokoschka, June - July 1966, no. 45, p. 30.

Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, on long-term loan from 1980 until 1995.

Dresden, Albertinum, Kokoschka und Dresden, September - December 1996, no. 29, p. 140 (illustrated p. 141); this exhibition later travelled to Vienna, Belvedere, Kokoschka und Wien, December 1996 - March 1997.

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Oskar Kokoschka: Expressionist, Migrant, European. A Retrospective, December 2018 - March 2019, no. 46, p. 297 (illustrated pp. 152 & 153).

Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Galerie Neue Meister, on long-term loan, from 1995 until 2022.

Kochel am See, Franz Marc Museum, on loan from 2022 until 2023.
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