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Oskar Kokoschka
O eternity-thou thundering word: Bach cantata1918

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Lithograph portrait, bust-length figure with short dark hair and angular features in three-quarter profile, holding a brush, with bold black cross-hatched marks and strong tonal contrasts
Lithograph in sepia-brown ink depicting a densely layered, fantastical creature or figure with swirling, organic forms, bulbous masses, and dynamic gestural linework on a white ground.
Lithograph in black and white; a figure in tattered clothing stumbles forward, arm raised, face upturned, against a dark swirling background with turbulent marks and a pale ghostly form to the left; loose, gestural draftsmanship with heavy shading.
Lithograph with vigorous hatched linework depicting two male figures in close physical confrontation; one reaches toward the other's pale, masklike face in a dynamic, angular composition against a dark, gestural background.
Lithograph of a kneeling figure with long hair, arms raised, face tilted upward toward a pale moon in a dark sky, rendered with expressive gestural linework.
Lithograph with energetic cross-hatched linework; two semi-clothed figures seated on the ground in the foreground, with a radiant burst of light and a mountainous form looming in the dark background.
Black and white lithograph or ink drawing of two figures sheltering beneath a rocky overhang beside a gnarled tree, with jagged mountain peaks in the background, rendered in loose expressive crosshatching.
Black and white lithograph with gestural linework; two standing figures in tattered clothing dominate the center, while a third crouches at lower right; jagged rocky formations and a turbulent landscape fill the background.
Lithograph of a large eagle perched on a rocky outcrop, beak open, rendered in bold black lines with expressive, loose mark-making; mountainous landscape in background; small creature sketched at lower center; faint text visible at top.
Charcoal or lithograph drawing of a full-length female figure in a wide skirt, seated upright with wind-blown hair, a crescent moon above; a second face visible beneath the skirt's hem; loosely sketched landscape with pyramidal forms in the background.
Lithograph in black and gray tones depicting two figures; a barefoot, partially clothed figure reclines across the lap of a seated figure wearing a pointed hood, rendered with vigorous, expressive mark-making against a dark background.

Oskar Kokoschka, Bust-length self-portrait with drawing pencil, 1918, 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
Title
O eternity-thou thundering word: Bach cantata
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1918
Medium
Printed material and eleven lithographs on Van Gelder Zonen paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.180a-k
Classification
Books
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Copyright
© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, Vevey / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / PROLITTERIS, Switzerland