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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.'
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.