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OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)
Stilleben mit Zentaur (Il ratto della bella Elena)
signed with initials and dated 'OK 1948' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 1/8 x 24 in. (51 x 61 cm.)
Painted in London in early 1949
Provenance
Elena & Leopold Zorzi, Italy, by whom acquired by 1952.
Private collection, Europe.
Literature
M. Masciotta, Kokoschka, Florence, 1949, no. 41, p. 50 (titled 'Natura morta').
H.M. Wingler, Oskar Kokoschka The Work of the Painter, Salzburg, 1958, no. 356, p. 332 (illustrated).
F. Pardi, Mostre romane: Oskar Kokoschka in "Nuova antalogia", vol. 478, January - April 1960, pp. 138-141.
J.P. Hodin, Kokoschka und Hellas, Vienna, 1975, p. 57-58 & 60 (illustrated p. 57).
K. Erling, W. Feilchenfeldt & Fondation Oskar Kokoschka (ed.), Oskar Kokoschka Die Gemälde Online (https://www.oskar-kokoschka-ch/de/1020/Online-Werkkatalog), Vevey, no. 382 (illustrated). Accessed in December 2022.
Exhibited
Rome, Palazzo Barberini, Oskar Kokoschka December 1959 - January 1960, no. 376, p. 62.
Rome, Palazzo Venezia, Oskar Kokoschka November 1981 - February 1982, p. 129 (illustrated p. 72; dated '1948').
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