Sale 12146
New York
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17 November 2016
PROPERTY FROM THE HOLDINGS OF THE FORD FOUNDATION
Price realised
USD 25,000
Estimate
Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) Lotte Mandl signed 'O Kokoschka' (lower left) gouache, watercolor and colored wax crayons on paper 23 ¾ x 20 in. (60.3 x 50.8 cm.) Executed in 1923
Provenance
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner, December 1966.
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Exhibited
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., Oskar Kokoschka, An Eightieth Birthday Tribute, October-November 1966, p. 111, no. 100 (illustrated; titled Girl Reading and dated 1920-1922).
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue of works by Oskar Kokoschka being prepared by Dr. Alfred Weidinger.
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