- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1955.172
- People
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Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian (Pöchlarn, Austria 1886 - 1980 Montreux, Switzerland)
- Title
- Biarritz
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Biarritz, Strand / Biarritz (der Strand) / Biarritz Beach
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1925
- Culture
- Austrian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/195673
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- sight: 73 × 107.3 cm (28 3/4 × 42 1/4 in.)
framed: 99.1 × 128.3 × 3.8 cm (39 × 50 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: O.K.
- Provenance
- Cassirer, Amsterdam(1925?-at least 1948); [Buchholz Gallery, New York]; Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., St. Louis, (1951-1955), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1955.
Note:
Records indicate it is likely this painting was stored at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, during World War II, possibly on behalf of Cassirer, who owned it both before and after the occupation of the Netherlands. - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
- Accession Year
- 1955
- Object Number
- 1955.172
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Austellung Oskar Kokoschka, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland, 1928), pl. 23, no. 82
Edith Hoffmann, Kokoschka: Life and Work, Faber & Faber (London) (London, England, 1947), reproduced, no. 177
Charles Scott Chetham, [Unidentified article], Fogg Art Museum Annual Report 1955-1956, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1956), p. 52
Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1957), pp. 49-50, fig. 35, ill. (plate section, b/w)
Pulitzer Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1957), no. 35
Hans Maria Wingler, Oskar Kokoschka: The Work of the Painter, Verlag Galerie Welz (Salzburg, Austria, 1958), pl. 72, reproduced in b/w
Anthony Bosman, Oskar Kokoschka, Barnes and Noble Books (New York, NY, 1964), reproduced in b/w no. 64
- Exhibition History
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Unidentified Exhibition, Paul Cassirer, 1925, Paul Cassirer Gallery, Berlin, 01/01/1925 - 12/31/1925
Austellung Oskar Kokoschka, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 06/01/1927 - 07/31/1927
Unidentified Exhibition, Mannheim, 1931, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, 01/01/1931 - 12/31/1931
Unidentified Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, 1945, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 01/01/1945 - 12/31/1946
Unidentified Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, 1947, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 01/01/1947 - 12/31/1947
Unidentified Exhibition, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1947, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 01/01/1947 - 12/31/1947
Unidentified Exhibition, Kunsthalle Basel, 1947, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 01/01/1947 - 12/31/1947
Unidentified Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 1948, Venice Biennale 1948, Venice, 01/01/1948 - 12/31/1948
St. Louis Collects, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 04/07/1952 - 05/05/1952
Unidentified Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1954, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/01/1954 - 12/31/1954
Unidentified Exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1954, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 01/01/1954 - 12/31/1954
Modern Painting Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 04/09/1957 - 05/04/1957; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1957 - 09/15/1957
Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983
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