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Oskar Kokoschka
The dreaming boys1917

Not on view
Color lithograph with bold flat graphic style, a blonde woman reclines in a stylized blue river, with decorative trees, a deer, and buildings above
Woodcut or linocut print with flat bold color, depicting a pale-haired figure in a black dress standing at center-left, surrounded by stylized fish, waves, and red leaf forms in blue, green, orange, red, and yellow; a small white figure appears on a brown boat upper right; a column of German text in black fills the right margin.
Illustrated page with bold flat colors and black outlines, showing figures in a boat at left, robed figures on rocky terrain at center, and a woman in white at lower right, with columns of German text at right margin.
Color woodcut or lithograph illustration with bold black outlines; a woman in a blue dress seats in a green landscape holding a flower, with stylized trees, a harbor with yellow boats, and two red fish swimming in blue wavy water; columns of German text at right; monogram 'OK' lower center.
Color woodcut or illustrated print depicting a stylized garden scene with figures in bold flat colors — blue, red, orange, and yellow robes — among rounded trees, conifers, and lily pads beside a pond with orange fish. Column of German text at right margin.
Illustrated book spread with bold flat colors; left page shows stylized figures in yellow, red, and brown robes amid dense foliage and a large green mound with a reclining figure; right page contains a column of German text in small print.
Illustrated book spread with bold flat graphic style; three nude figures in a nocturnal forest scene surrounding a blue pond with red fish, flanked by stylized yellow trees with red foliage against a dark background; column of German text at right.
Illustrated book page with flat, bold color printing. Two nude standing figures flank a large orange tree-like form with black leaf motifs and yellow bird figures. Background shows stylized green hills, trees, and small clothed figures. German text in Gothic script fills the right margin and lower right corner.
Artist or Maker
Oskar Kokoschka
Title
The dreaming boys
Place Made
Germany, Leipzig
Date Made
1917
Medium
Printed material with eight color lithographs mechanically transferred to stone on wove paper
Dimensions
Sheets: 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (24 x 28.5 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.125a-h
Classification
Books
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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • Wingler, Hans Maria; Welz, Friedrich. O. Kokoschka: das druckgraphische Werk. Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1975.