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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
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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

Verification Level

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