Landscape in Scotland - Findhorn River

Copyright

© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / DACS 2023
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Maker


1886-1980

Title

Landscape in Scotland - Findhorn River

Date of Production

1929

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 71.3 cm (canvas)
Width: 91.4 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1978.PG.208

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This canvas was painted on the artist’s first visit to Scotland. He lodged for a week in a highland farmhouse, finding this view at the junction of the Findhorn and Divie rivers, near Loch Ness. A postcard sent home from nearby Dulsie Bridge comments on the stormy weather and the wild natural setting. A few yards from where Kokoschka painted this scene is a stone commemorating the Moray floods which occurred exactly a century before he was there, adding an element of dramatic history to the turbulent work. Kokoschka returned to Scotland several times during World War II to paint further landscapes.

Provenance

Cassirer, Berlin; Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978) acquired London 1941; Princes Gate Bequest 1978.

Exhibition History

Special Display - Oskar Kokoschka: The Prometheus Triptych, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/11/2021-22/09/2022
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
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Kokoschka - Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings in the
Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 09/09/1992-28/10/1992
The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, 12/01/1984-28/02/1984; Kyoto, 03/03/1984-03/04/1984; Osaka, 12/04/1984-08/05/1984; Australia National Gallery, Canberra, 01/06/1984-06/08/1984
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Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998
Kokoschka - Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1992
cat. no. 19
Fig. p. p. 61
The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Canberra, 1984

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