1955.172: Biarritz

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1955.172

People

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

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

• Signed: l.r.: O.K.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

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

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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

• 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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