No.21 

Oskar Kokoschka
(Pöchlarn 1886-1980 Villeneuve) Upright standing nude girl, c. 1921, reed pen and ink, gouache, watercolour, on paper, 68 x 51.5 cm, framed, (K)

Dr. Alice Strobl and Dr. Alfred Weidinger have seen this work in the original and confirmed it to be an autograph work by Oskar Kokoschka. It is going to be included in the second volume of the catalogue raisonné: Weidinger/Strobl, Kokoschka, Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle.
Provenance: private property, Germany
Compare: Kokoschka und Dresden, Dresden, Albertinum, 29 Sept. - 4 Dec. 1996; Vienna, Oberes Belvedere, 18 Dec. - 2 March 1997, Nos. 75 and 77.
The watercolours from Dresden depicting persons can be divided into two groups, although their dating is sometimes uncertain. The works of the first group were executed between October and December 1921, and those of the second group between spring 1922 and winter 1922/1923. They constitute a high point in Kokoschka’s art and in 20th-century watercolour painting in general. During this period symbolic and visionary elements became rarer. Kokoschka concentrated on the impressions of the landscape, children, and female faces. He freed human nature from the banalities of the moment, lending it a more universal dimension. After the war Kokoschka dealt with the human figure again, bestowing on it a new humanism. Carl Einstein wrote in 1919: “With the help of art, Man rediscovered Man”. Kokoschka was able to reimmerse himself in his art completely, recreating his own self. Véronique Mauron, Musée Jenisch, Vevey

estimate €70.000,- to €100.000,-

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