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Oskar Kokoschka
Flautist and bats1906-1908

Not on view
Vertical color print with bold black outlines depicting a nighttime mountain scene with yellow stars, bats, a moon with a face, and a fantastical costumed figure holding a staff beside a wheeled cage
Three printed greeting cards with flat, bold linework and bright colors. Left card: robed figures and a bird amid green waves and yellow stars on dark background. Center card: bats, a lantern-carrying figure, and stars beneath a moon. Right card: yellow-winged angels and figures in red and white near rocks, with text reading 'FROEHLICHES OSTERFEST.' Each card initialed 'OK.'

Oskar Kokoschka, Flautist and bats, 1906-1908, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, digital file © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Oskar Kokoschka
Austria, also active Germany, United States, and England, 1886-1980
Title
Flautist and bats
Place Made
Austria, Vienna
Date Made
1906-1908
Medium
Color lithograph mechanically transferred to stone, on white board
Dimensions
Image: 5 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (13.02 x 7.94 cm); Sheet: 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (13.97 x 8.89 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.152
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Wingler, Hans Maria; Welz, Friedrich. O. Kokoschka: das druckgraphische Werk. Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1975.
Copyright
© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, Vevey / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / PROLITTERIS, Switzerland