View of Polperro
Copyright
© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / DACS 2023
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
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Maker
(artist)
1886-1980
1886-1980
Title
View of Polperro
Date of Production
1939
Medium
blue crayon, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper, the upper edge uniformly jagged as from a sketchbook
Dimensions
Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 43.1 cm
Width: 43.1 cm
Object Number
D.1978.PG.267
Mode of Acquisition
Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite, signed, dated and located: "OKokoschka 39' Polperro".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite, signed, dated and located: "OKokoschka 39' Polperro".
Collector's mark: none.
Provenance
given by the artist to his friend, Sebastian Isepp (1884-1954); given by him to Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978
Exhibition History
Kokoschka - Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings in the
Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 09/09/1992-28/10/1992
Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 09/09/1992-28/10/1992
Kokoschka, Tate Gallery, London, 1962
Literature
Kokoschka - Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings in the
Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1992
cat. no. 13
ill. on p. 53
cat. no. 13
ill. on p. 53
Kokoschka, Tate Gallery, London, 1962
cat. no. 214
cat. no. 214
Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 267
pl. CIII
no. 267
pl. CIII
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