Victor Ritter von Bauer

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Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn 1886 - 1980 Montreux)
Victor Ritter von Bauer
1914
Oil on canvas
27 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. • 68.9 x 55.9 cm
On verso, monogrammed upper right in black oil: O K; inscribed upper left on verso in white chalk(?): 23; On recto (stretcher bar) inscribed upper part of right stretcher bar in blue ball-point pen: 69 x 5; inscribed upper part of left stretcher bar: 36 (underlined); inscribed right part of upper stretcher bar in white chalk(?): NO 3; illegible black stamp center part of upper stretcher bar; off-white rectangular paper sticker (fragment) with blue border adhered to left of center of upper stretcher bar, inscribed in blue ink(?): Gottschalk; white rectangular paper sticker adhered to left part of upper stretcher bar, imprinted in black: Please return to / SERGE SABARSKY INC., 58 e. 79 St., New York, NY 10021 / 14.4884 / Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980 / Herr Bauer, 1914 / Oil on canvas / 69 x 56 / Winkler/Erling 110
30 7/8 x 25 7/8 in. • 78.7 x 66 cm

Provenance

as per Winkler-Erling: Viktor Bauer, Vienna;
as per Winkler-Erling: Gustav Nebehay, Vienna;
as per Winkler-Erling: Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, March 1922, jointly owned with Galerie Georg Caspari, Munich;
as per Winkler-Erling: Private Collection, Berlin, by August 1923;
as per Winkler-Erling: Sammlung Gottschalk, Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, by 1967;
as per Winkler-Erling: Galerie Meier Hahn, Düsseldorf;
as per Winkler-Erling: Galerie Roswitha Haftmann, Zurich;
as per Winkler-Erling: Thomas T. Solley, Bloomington, IN, since 1983 on loan to Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, as per verbal communication Margo Schab, 01/00: this was co-owned with Charles W. Ward, Indianapolis, IN;
as per verbal communication Margo Schab, 01/00: Margo Pollins Schab, New York, 1988;
as per verbal communication Margo Schab, 01/00: Kurt von Schuschnigg, Vienna, 1988;
as per Winkler-Erling: Galerie Wolfdietrich Hassfurther, Vienna, by October 1988 until May 1991;
Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York, since May 1991.

Literature

Edith Hoffmann, Kokoschka: Life and Work (London: Faber & Faber, 1947), cat. no. 93;

Hans Maria Wingler, Oskar Kokoschka, das Werk des Malers (Salzburg: Galerie Welz, 1956), p. 305, cat. no. 101;

Hans Maria Wingler, Oskar Kokoschka: The Work of the Painter (Salzburg: Galerie Welz, 1958), p. 305, cat. no. 101;

Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus rheinisch-westfalischem Privatbesitz: Malerei, Plastik, Handzeichnung [Ausstellung] 30. April – 18. Juni 1967 (Düsseldorf: Städtische Kunsthalle, 1967), p. 53, cat. no. 186, dated “c. 1914,” b/w ill. pl. 45;

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd, Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, (auction) New York, November 3, 1981, cat. no. 41, w. color ill.;

Alfons Walde 1891-1958 : Schiele Egger-Lienz : Verkaufsausstellung Vom 3. November Bis 21. Dezember 1988 : Wolfdietrich Hassfurther Wien (Vienna: Wolfdietrich Hassfurther, 1988), cat. no. 28, color ill., pl. 16;

Galerie Hassfurther, Alte und neue Meister, (auction), Vienna, December 14, 1990, w. color ill.;</p

Exhibition History

1927 Ausstellung Oskar Kokoschka, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, June 6 – July 7, 1927, cat. no. 36;

1929 Kokoschka-Ausstellung, Kunstsalon Hermann Abels, Cologne, March 16 – April 15, 1929, cat. no. 23;

1932 Kunst der Gegenwart aus Düsseldorfer Privatbesitz, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, May 12 – June 5, 1932, cat. no. 66;

1956 Düsseldorfer Kaufleute sammeln moderne Kunst, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, May 25 – July 15, 1956, cat. no. 182;

1967 Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus rheinisch-westfälischem, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, April 30 – June 18, 1967, cat. no. 186;

1994 Oskar Kokoschka: Wczesne lata, Miedzynarodowe Centrum Kultury, Cracow, October 6 – November 27, 1994, cat. no. 4;

Oskar Kokoschka: Wczesne lata, Gornoslaska Macierz Kultury, Katowice, December 19, 1994 – January 29, 1995, cat. no. 4;

1995 Klimt – Schiele – Kokoschka, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, May 20 – August 14, 1995, cat. no. 89;

1997 Oskar Kokoschka: Die frühen Jahre, Städtische Galerie Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, February 19 – May 11, 1997, cat. no. 3;

Oskar Kokoschka: Viden – Praha: Olejomalby, Akvarely, Kresby, Mezinárodní kulturní centrum Egona Schieleho, Ceský Krumlov, May 23 – October 28, 1997;

1998 Oskar Kokoschka. Peintures et oeuvres sur papier. Vienne 1906 – Paris 1931, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris, December 29, 1998 – March 7, 1999, cat. no. 3;

2001 New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890-1940, The Neue Galerie, New York, November 16, 2001 – February 18, 2002, cat. no. 52;

2002 Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin 1909-1914, The Neue Galerie, New York, March 15 – June 10, 2002, cat. no. 177;

Oskar Kokoschka. Das moderne Bildnis 1909 bis 1914, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, July 5 – September 29, 2002, cat. no. 177;

2009 From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks From the Serge Sabarsky Collection, The Neue Galerie, New York, October 25, 2009 – February 15, 2010;

2018 Oskar Kokoschka. Expressionist, Migrant, Europäer. Eine Retrospektive, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, December 14, 2018 – March 10, 2019, cat. no. 32;

2019 Oskar Kokoschka. Expressionist, Migrant, Europäer. Eine Retrospektive, Leopold Museum, Vienna, April 4, 2019 – July 8, 2019, cat. no. 32.</p

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