0484
Oskar Kokoschka*
(Pöchlarn 1886 - 1980 Montreux)
„Salome with the head of John the Baptist (recto), nude study of Salome (verso)“
1906
watercolour, tempera, opaque white, gold bronze over preliminary pencil drawing on paper
30,5 x 40 cm
monogrammed at center left: OK
pencil sketch verso
Provenance
collection Richard Lanyi, Vienna (sold by Richard Lanyi at a charity auction in Vienna after 1912, the exact date is unknown);
Frank McDonald, New South Wales, Australia (until 1994);
Sotheby's London, 29 June 1994, no. 188;
private collection, Austria
Exhibition
1994 Vienna, Albertina, Oskar Kokoschka. Das Frühwerk, 2 March - 23 May, cat.-no. 15 (colour ill.)
Literature
Sotheby's London, 23 June 1993, no. 243;
Alice Strobl, Alfred Weidinger, Katalog Albertina, Vienna 1994, p. 11f.;
Heinz Spielmann, Oskar Kokoschka. Das Frühwerk. in: Kunst Chronik, 47 year, issue 8, Nuremberg, August 1994, p. 420, ill. 7b, p. 471;
Alfred Weidinger, Oskar Kokoschka. Dreaming Boy - Enfant terrible, exhibition catalogue Stenersen Museum Oslo und Amos Anderson Art Museum Helsinki, Vienna 1996, no. 7;
Alfred Weidinger (diss.), Oskar Kokoschka. Träumender Knabe und Enfant Terrible 1897/98 bis 1910, Salzburg 1997, p. 20f., ill. 39 and p. 22f., ill. 42 (Nude study of Salome in pencil);
Oskar Kokoschka, Watercolours and Drawings, Nordiska Akrvellmuseet, 4 June - 27 August 2006, no. 3, ill. p. 51;
Alfred Weidinger, Alice Strobl, Oskar Kokoschka, Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle 1897-1916, Salzburg 2008, cat.-no. 76 and 77 (pencil sketch verso), ill. p. 39;
Agnes Husslein-Arco and Alfred Weidinger (ed.), Oskar Kokoschka. Träumender Knabe - Enfant terrible, 1906-1922, catalogue Belvedere, Vienna 2008, cat. 2, ill. p. 13
Estimate: € 35.000 - 70.000
Result: € 59.400 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.