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KOKOSCHKA, Oskar (1886-1980). A pen-and-ink drawing of a full-length West-African female figure, inscribed and signed with initials 'OK', on the front free endpaper and half-title of Peter ALTENBERG, Ashantee, Berlin: S. Fischer, 1897, 8vo, half green cloth (some spotting). Provenance: Emerich Berger, Gmünd, Austria (bookseller's ticket on upper pastedown) -- Sebastian Isepp (1884-1954); by direct descent.
Kokoschka was first introduced to the writer Peter Altenberg (his real name Richard Engländer) by Loos, who also commissioned him to paint Altenberg's portrait. Painted in 1909, the portrait is still 'considered a master of the Impressionistic sketch and ironic aphorism' (ed. T. G. Natter, Oskar Kokoschka, Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin, p.118). The drawing here is accompanied by an autograph inscription in German, [Love comes flying in like a bird and settles itself down], with a small drawing of a bird, and is inscribed by Kokoschka to 'servus Wastl', his nickname for the artist, Sebastian Isepp.
Kokoschka was first introduced to the writer Peter Altenberg (his real name Richard Engländer) by Loos, who also commissioned him to paint Altenberg's portrait. Painted in 1909, the portrait is still 'considered a master of the Impressionistic sketch and ironic aphorism' (ed. T. G. Natter, Oskar Kokoschka, Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin, p.118). The drawing here is accompanied by an autograph inscription in German, [Love comes flying in like a bird and settles itself down], with a small drawing of a bird, and is inscribed by Kokoschka to 'servus Wastl', his nickname for the artist, Sebastian Isepp.
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