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Oskar Kokoschka 1886-1980 Austria Mixed Media Nude

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Oskar Kokoschka 1886-1980 Austria Mixed Media Nude
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Pencil and watercolor on paper, featuring lying nude woman, signed and attr. Oskar Kokoschka (Austrian, 1886-1980) on left, with stamp on verso, 11.4 x 7.9 inch (29 x 20 cm), Provenance: Private Collection Italy.

An artist, poet, and playwright, Oskar Kokoschka is known for his expressionistic portraits and landscapes. Throughout his life, Kokoschka was concerned with expressing human character and psychology through effects of color, formal distortion, and violent brushwork. Like Max Beckmann, he is considered a founding leader of Expressionism, but both artists maintained some independence from the movement; Kokoschka rejected the term as a description of his work and maintained that his practice adhered to traditional themes and values. He is most celebrated for his dark, emotionally turbulent figurative paintings, like The Bride of the Wind (1914), a meditation on his affair with Alma Mahler. He later moved to Prague to flee the Nazis after his work was condemned as “degenerate” and removed from public view.