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    Oskar Kokoschka

    Pöchlarn 1886 - 1980 Villeneuve

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    Bunte Sommerblumen

    Estimate CHF 40'000
    Hammer price CHF 34'000
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    16.09.2021
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    1965

    Watercolour

    61x48,5 cm

    Signed and dated by the artist in charcoal lower right "OKokoschka / 18.9.1965".

    Provenance

    Probably R.N. Ketterer, Campione d'Italia, 1968, since then in the same private collection in Switzerland through inheritance.

    Literature

    cf. R.N. Ketterer, Campione, Moderne Kunst V, 1968, cat. no. 98

    Condition

    On cream watercolour paper, with watermark "HAND MADE J. WHATMAN 1944 ENGLAND", paper slightly browned, on the reverse with minimal remains of an old mounting.

    Comments

    Kokoschka worked almost daily on his colourful and airy watercolours of flowers in his garden in Villeneuve on Lake Geneva. He called these lucid still lifes "finger exercises", which impressively demonstrate his entire mastery of this medium.


     
     

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    1965

    Aquarell

    61x48,5 cm

    Unten rechts vom Künstler in Kohle signiert und datiert "OKokoschka / 18.9.1965"

    Provenienz

    Wohl R.N. Ketterer, Campione d'Italia, 1968, seither durch Erbschaft in gleicher Privatsammlung Schweiz

    Literatur

    vgl. R.N. Ketterer, Campione, Moderne Kunst V, 1968, Kat. Nr. 98

    Zustand

    Auf cremefarbenem Aquarellpapier, mit Wasserzeichen "HAND MADE J. WHATMAN 1944 ENGLAND", im Papier leicht gebräunt, rückseitig mit minimen Resten einer alten Montage

    Erläuterungen

    Fast täglich arbeitete Kokoschka in seinem Garten in Villeneuve am Genfersee an seinen farbenprächtigen und luftig gestalteten Blumenaquarellen. "Fingerübungen" nannte er diese luziden Stillleben, die seine ganze Meisterschaft in diesem Medium eindrücklich aufzeigen


     
     
     
    Estimated shipping fees
    Switzerland CHF145
    Europe CHF255
    Overseas CHF330

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