Lot 85
  • 85

Oskar Kokoschka 1886-1980

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Oskar Kokoschka
  • The Flight into Egypt
  • Signed with the artist's initials OK (lower right)
  • Pencil and crayon on brown paper
  • Sheet: 13 1/2 by 17 3/4 in.
  • 34.3 by 4.1 cm.
  • Executed in 1917.

Provenance

Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London
Margretta Austin Jamieson, London (acquired from the above circa 1965)
Thence by descent

Condition

Sheet is in generally good condition. Soft rippling to sheet. Top and bottom edges are unevenly scissor-cut. 3 small repairs; 2 small repairs at bottom edge, another at left edge. Small tear lower left. Old tape remnants appear in the corners and at the upper top edge, all verso. There is a horizontal flattened crease parallel to the bottom edge approximately a 1/4 in. from the bottom edge. Other more faint scattered creases and handling marks. A few tiny scattered dark stains.
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the forthcoming second volume of the catalogue raisonnĂ© of drawings being prepared by Dr. Alfred Weidinger.