Lot 98
  • 98

Oskar Kokoschka

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Oskar Kokoschka
  • Portrait of Eva Whyte (PORTRÉT EVY WHYTE)
  • signed O. Kokoschka and dated '44 lower right

  • watercolour on paper
  • 30 by 47cm., 11¾ by 18½in.
  • 30 x 47 cm

Provenance

Mr. Jose Viliesid, Mexico (a gift from the artist in 1944); thence by descent
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 20 October 1999, lot 128
Purchased at the above sale

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper. Not examined out of it's frame, this work is behind glass with no visible damage. Apart from some faint spots of foxing, this work is overall good condition.
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