Oil on paper, framed. Featuring a female nude body. Signed O.K. on the lower right corner. Attributed to Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980, Austrian) on the lower right corner. 66 x 39 cm (26 x 15 inches). Frame size: 92 x 65 cm (36 x 25.6 inches). PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate.

One of the longest-lived expressionist painters, the Austrian-born painter, printmaker and writer Oskar Kokoschka was born at Pochlarn in Bohemia, and received his arts training in the Austro-Hungarian capital, Vienna. His first works - like the picture book The Dreaming Youths - were admired, and in 1908 he exhibited in the Kunstschau exhibition organized by the Klimt circle. This, together with his activity as a poet and playwright brought him into contact with the city's avant-garde art community, including the composer Schonberg. Like the other great Austrian painter, his contemporary Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Kokoschka was influenced by German and Austrian versions of Art Nouveau (see also Jugendstil as well as the Vienna Secession) but, unlike Schiele, his painting style quickly moved from Klimt-style decorative linearism to a more intense style of German Expressionism. Kokoschka is now ranked among the greatest modern artists of the Austrian school, and one of the finest expressionist portrait artists of the 20th century. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

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