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OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)

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Lot 276 | OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)
OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)

Die Zeder

signed with initials 'OK' (lower left)

oil on canvas

31 7⁄8 x 44 ¾ in. (81 x 113.5 cm.)

Painted near Villeneuve in 1958





Provenance

Dr. Edgar Horstmann, Hamburg, by whom acquired directly from the artist, by 1962.

Private collection, Switzerland, by 1975, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

K. Erling, W. Feilchenfeldt & Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, Oskar Kokoschka. Die Gemälde Online (https://www.oskar-kokoschka.ch/de/1020/Online-Werkkatalog), Vevey, no. 1958⁄5 (illustrated). Accessed on 25 January 2024.



Exhibited

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Grosse Kunstausstellung, June - October 1959, no. 576, p. (titled 'Landschaft').

Braunschweig, Haus Salve Hospes, Der späte Kokoschka, January - February 1960, no. 31 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Bremen, Kunsthalle, February - April 1960; Hameln, Kunstkreis, April - Mai 1960 and Pforzheim, Kunst- und Kunstgewerbeverein, May - June 1960.

Copenhagen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Oskar Kokoschka, October - November 1960, no. 62 (titled 'Zederbaum').

London, Tate Gallery, Kokoschka, September - November 1962, no. 151, p. 48.

Vienna, Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, Oskar Kokoschka, zum 85. Geburtstag, April - June 1971, no. 82, p. 51 (titled 'Der Zederbaum').

Hamburg, Kunsthaus & B.A.T-haus, Oskar Kokoschka, Gemälde und Aquarelle seit 1953, Zeichnungen, Druckgrafik, Mosaiken seit 1971, February - May 1975, no. 14, p. 43 (titled 'Der Zedernbaum').

Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Oskar Kokoschka, Oleos y acuarelas dibujos, grabados, mosaicos, May - July 1975, no. 14, p. 44.

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Oskar Kokoschka, Memorial Exhibition, May - June 1981, no. 52, p. 21 (illustrated on p. 75); this exhibition later travelled to London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., June - July 1981.

Vevey, Musée Jenisch, Hommage à Oskar Kokoschka, April - June 1984, no. 40, p. 46.

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Oskar Kokoschka, The Late Work, 1953–1980, June - July 1990, no. 4, p. 16 (illustrated).
Artist:Oskar Kokoschka (1886 - 1980)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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