Lot 242
  • 242

Oskar Kokoschka

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Oskar Kokoschka
  • Landschaft mit Garten (Landscape with garden)
  • signed Kokoschka, dated 58 and indistinctly inscribed (lower right)
  • watercolour on paper
  • 48 by 63cm., 18 7/8 by 24 3/4 in.

Provenance

Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London
Acquired from the above by the late owner in 1961

Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Oskar Kokoschka in England and Scotland, 1960, no. 67, illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

Executed on cream laid paper and laid down. All four edges are deckled. There are small losses to both lower corners and the sheet is time stained from previous mounting. There is some glue residue visible along the upper edge, associated to the laying down process. There is pin-sized spot of foxing towards the centre of the left edge. Overall this work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work depicts Olda Kokoschka in the garden of her house in Villeneuve.