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A lithograph showing a figure riding on horseback through the country with a ship in the background.

In this image, a yellow figure astride a black-and-white speckled horse walks through a verdant countryside. Both figure and horse face left in profile, but the figure gestures backwards with his right arm. Beyond the green hills is a red ship with two furled white sails on a blue body of water. The colors used in this piece are green, yellow, red, blue, and white, and the figure, horse, and hills in the middle ground are outlined in black.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR59.6
People
Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian (Pöchlarn, Austria 1886 - 1980 Montreux, Switzerland)
Printed by Wiener Werkstätte (1903 - 1932)
Title
Postcard published by the Wiener Werkstätte (Rider and Sailboat)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Reiter und Segelschiff
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1906-1908
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223152

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph in black, blue, yellow, green, and red inks on off-white wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 14.1 x 9 cm (5 9/16 x 3 9/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Louis W. Black
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
BR59.6
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hans Maria Wingler and Friedrich Welz, O. Kokoschka: Das druckgraphische Werk, Verlag Galerie Welz (Salzburg, Austria, 1975), no. 3, p. 62

Exhibition History

  • Dream and Design: Turn-of-the-Century Art in Vienna and Central Europe, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/07/1992 - 05/03/1992
  • “As though my body were naught but ciphers”: Crises of Representation in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 02/12/2005 - 06/12/2005
  • 32Q: 1440 Secessionism: Munich, Vienna, Berlin (Expressionism), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/22/2015 - 04/05/2016

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