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View of Polperro

Maker

(artist)
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

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.267

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / DACS 2023

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



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
, The 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

Kokoschka, Tate Gallery, London, 1962
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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite, signed, dated and located: "OKokoschka 39' Polperro".

Collector's mark: none.

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