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Two covers for Eleonore Duse Two covers for Eleonore Duse

Lost Art-ID
568430
Artist / Creator
Kokoschka, Oskar
Birth
1886.03.01, Pöchlarn
Death
1980.02.22, Montreaux
Place of activity
Salzburg; Berlin; Wien; Dresden; Prag; London
Title
Two covers for Eleonore Duse Two covers for Eleonore Duse
Dating
1906
Object type
Book cover
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Material / Technique
Leather (Pig) ; Oil / painted
Description

each band in pig leather, the lid painted by Kokoschka in oil, as well as the two signed watercolors as front leaves. Presumably textbooks on Henrik Ibsen's "wife from the sea" and "John Gabriel Borkmann"

Exhibition: Oskar Kokoschka, Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Wien, Mai–Juni 1937 (outside catalogue)

Provenance
Dr. Ernst (Helene) Bunzl, Vienna until 1938 (Flight); 1938 Registration of the assets for export and transfer to the forwarding company Hausner, Vienna; whereabouts unknown, seizure under Nazi persecution can not be exluded
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