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Oskar Kokoschka, Fritz Gurlitt, Verlag Fritz Gurlitt

O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Bachkantate), 1918

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Medium

bound volume with twelve signed lithographs (eleven illustrations plus one illustrated titlepage of Fortuna) on laid paper.

Dimensions

sheet: 55 x 41.8 cm (21 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.)
book: 56 x 42 x 1 cm (22 1/16 x 16 9/16 x 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Beverly and Christopher With in memory of Karl and Gerda With

Catalogue Raisonné

Wingler/Welz 1975, nos. 58-68

Accession Number

2008.96.1.1-12

Artists / Makers

Oskar Kokoschka (artist) Austrian, 1886 - 1980

Fritz Gurlitt (publisher) German, 1854 - 1893

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Inscription

lower right in graphite on titlepage: Kokoschka 1918; verso of title page in graphite: (not deciphered) / Pittsfield. orig. 1949 / Kokoschka / (not deciphered); inside upper left front cover in graphite: Karl Widtr. former director Kunstgerverhemuseum, Köln

Marks and Labels

label of J.H. de Bois, Haarlem (bookseller?)

Provenance

Gift of the Artist via Mr. Burnstein (letter from artist enclosed in book); Karl With; by bequest to Beverly and Christopher With, Washington, DC, 1981; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

With, Christopher

Bibliography

1975: Wingler, Hans M. and Friedrich Welz. O. Kokoschka, das druckgraphische Werk. Salzburg: Verlag Welz, 1975, nos. 58-68.

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