Sale: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 355

 

355
Oskar Kokoschka
Vornübergebeugter Mädchenakt, 1907/08.
Black Chalks, watercolor, ink brush and pen ove...
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 50,800 / $ 54,864

(incl. surcharge)
Vornübergebeugter Mädchenakt. 1907/08.
Black Chalks, watercolor, ink brush and pen over pencil.
Monogrammed in lower right. On brownish wove paper. 30.9 x 45.1 cm (12.1 x 17.7 in), size of sheet. [CH].

• Particularly early work by the great expressionist.
• From the acclaimed Serge Sabarsky Collection.
• Long exhibition history.
• Kokoschka was considered an enfant terrible from an early point on, which soon earned him a name in the Vienna art scene: He participated in the 'Wiener Kunstschau', a grand exhibition of modern art (in 1908 organized by Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann) as early as in 1908 and 1909, around the time this work was made.
• Works from this early creative period after Kokoschka's training at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts are extremely rare on the international auction market.
• Through the simplification of the form and the formally liberated figure, the work already hints at Kokoschka's later unconventional mature style
.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Günther Franke, Munich.
Otto-Heinrich Nachtigall Collection, Dortmund (1967).
Serge Sabarsky Collection (1912-1996), New York (acquired in 1984).
Serge Sabarsky Estate, New York (1996).
Vally Sabarsky Collection (1909-2002), New York.
Vally Sabarsky Foundation, New York.

EXHIBITION: Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus rheinisch-westfälischem Privatbesitz. Malerei, Plastik, Handzeichnung), Städtische Kunsthalle und Kunstverein f. d. Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, April 30 - June 18, 1967, p. 53, cat. no. 185 (titled "Gebeugter Akt").
Oskar Kokoschka: Dipinti e disegni, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, April 4 - June 7, 1987; Palazzo del Turismo, Riccione, June 20 - August 16, 1987, cat. no. 26.
Europalia 87 Austria: Oskar Kokoschka, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent, September 17 - November 8, 1987; Salle Saint-Georges, Liège, November 14 - December 31, 1987, cat. no. 64.
Oskar Kokoschka 1886-1980, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, February 9 - April 10, 1988, cat. no. 71.
Oskar Kokoschka. Die frühen Jahre, Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat Bottrop, August 21 - October 9, 1988; Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, March 12 - April 16, 1989; BAWAG Fondation, Vienna, October 15 - November 28, 1992,
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee & Oskar Kokoschka. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, November 10, 1993 - January 13, 1994.
Oskar Kokoschka. Die frühen Jahre, Ulmer Museum, June 12 - August 14, 1994, cat. no. 7.
Oskar Kokoschka. Wczesne lata, Miedzynarodowe Centrum Kultury, Cracow, October 6 - November 27, 1994; Gornoslaska Macierz Kultury, Katowice, December 19, 1994 - January 29, 1995, cat. no. 15.
Klimt - Schiele - Kokoschka, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, May 20 - August 14, 1995, cat. no. 96.
Oskar Kokoschka. Die frühen Jahre, Städtische Galerie, Klagenfurt, February 19 - May 11, 1997, cat. no. 9.
Oskar Kokoschka. Wien - Prag (Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen), Mezinárodní kulturní centrum Egona Schieleho, Ceský Krumlov, May 23 - October 28, 1997.
Oskar Kokoschka. Peintures et œuvres sur papier (Vienna 1906 - Paris 1931), Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris, December 29, 1998 - March 7, 1999, cat. no. 14 (with color illu.).

LITERATURE: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 254th auction, Modern Art, June 8/9, 1984, lot 896, p. 124 (with color illu., plate 92).
Serge Sabarsky (ed.), Oskar Kokoschka. Die frühen Jahre 1906-1926 (Aquarelle und Zeichnungen), Munich 1986, cat. no. 7 (with color illu.).




355
Oskar Kokoschka
Vornübergebeugter Mädchenakt, 1907/08.
Black Chalks, watercolor, ink brush and pen ove...
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 50,800 / $ 54,864

(incl. surcharge)