- Artist
- Oskar Kokoschka 1886–1980
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 635 × 762 mm
frame: 798 × 922 × 75 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mrs Olda Kokoschka, the artist's widow, in honour of the directorship of Sir Alan Bowness 1988
- Reference
- T05485
Technique and condition
Oil painting on a commercially prepared canvas tacked to a wooden stretcher. The ground layer is of a creamy/off-white colour.
The paint film was built up from a series of thin, fluidly applied washes, the thicker more opaque applications tending to be restricted to the final stages of painting but even then the resulting impasto being of less than 1mm thickness. The painting bears no overall protective varnish.
The painting is in generally good condition with only minor disfigurement related to careless handling. Only minor, mainly preventive treatment was thought necessary at the time of acquisition. The straight moulded gilded frame was with the painting when it was lent to the Tate in 1983 but may not date from before the 1960's. The frame has been fitted with glass or acrylic glazing since 1985.
Peter Booth
1993
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