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Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980)
Jerusalem Faces, 1973-1974
Lithograph on Japan Nacre.
Numbered and signed in pencil by the artist.
List of Portraits: Golda Meir, Dr. Shimon Agranat, His Beatitude Benedictos I, Moshe Dayan, Sheik Mustafa Khalil El-Ansari.
No. 18/150.
With prior invoice, Christies.
The lithographs were created by the artist during his visit to Jerusalem in April, 1973. The Edition de Tete contains six lithographs each one signed by the artist and numbered. Twenty proofs, marked A to T have been reserved for the aritst; a number of sets have been retained by the collaborators. The format of the lithograph's is 650 x 500mm and they have been printed from the stone on handmade Japan paper by the Graphische Anstalt J. E. Wolfensberger AG, Zurich. The binding has been undertaken by J. Stemmle & Co, Zurich and Ascona, in their Zurich workshop. The Edition de Tete is presented in a Solanderbox covered in white buckram and blue lettering.
Artist's info: Austrian painter, graphic artist, modeller and writer (1886 Pöchlarn to 1980 Montreux), studied at the School of Applied Arts of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry under Gustav Klimt, W. Löffler and Adolf Loos, around 1910 moved to Berlin and worked for Herwarth Walden's magazine 'Der Sturm', 1911 returned to Vienna, worked as an assistant at the School of Arts and Crafts and collaborated with the Wiener Werkstätten, 1914 member of the Free Secession Berlin and war volunteer, after being wounded 1917 moved to Dresden, 1919-26 member of the academic council and professor at the academy of arts, already on leave from his professorial duties from 1924, Kokoschka undertakes a seven-year journey through Europe, North Africa and the countries on the eastern Mediterranean, 1931 return to Vienna and alternating stays in Paris and Vienna, 1933-45 defamed as 'degenerate', 1934 escape to Prague, here professor at the academy of arts and 1934 professor of art in Prague. In 1934 he fled to Prague, where he became a professor at the Academy of Arts and in 1937 founded the "Oskar Kokoschka Association"; in 1938 he emigrated to England; in 1946 he became a British citizen; in 1953 he founded the "School of Seeing" in Salzburg and moved to Villeneuve; subsequently he travelled widely, exhibited widely (e.g. in Kassel) and received international honours; in 1975 he became an Austrian citizen again and was a member of the German and Austrian Artists' Associations; source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler and Wikipedia.
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