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Mother and Child, Embracing
Date1922

Artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886 Pöchlarn – 1980 Villeneuve)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
121 × 81 cm
SignatureMonogrammiert links unten: OK
Inventory number5713
Location Currently not on display
During his time in Dresden, Oskar Kokoschka composed this painting of a mother and child out of large planes of thickly applied paint in saturated hues of blue, green, and yellow. He shows the woman not as a benevolent Madonna offering comfort and safety, but as a person drained and exhausted, the child clinging to her, wanting to be close. In the early 1920s, Kokoschka’s painting style developed in a new direction that revealed the influence of German Expressionism. The emotional, graphic brushstrokes were replaced by a flat arrangement of colors. In some places the brushwork is transformed into compartments of color.

Provenance
Exhibitions

Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin.
1924-1958 Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Berlin, Raleigh und Detroit.
Paul Kantor, Los Angeles.
1963 Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich
1965 Ankauf Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zürich

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