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Description: Executed in 1958. signed O. Kokoschka and dated 58 (lower right), and dedicated per la casa Orfeo con amore OK (centre left) watercolour on paper

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Dimensions: 46.3 by 61.2cm., 18 1/8 by 24 1/8 in.

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Provenance: Wilhelm Kempff (a gift from the artist to mark his visit to the pianist and composer at his home, Casa Orfeo, in Positano in 1959)
Thence by descent to the present owner

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Notes: To be included in the forthcoming third volume of the Kokoschka Catalogue raisonné being prepared by Alice Strobl and Dr Alfred Weidninger.
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE WILHELM-KEMPFF KULTURSTIFTUNG
This work is part of a serie of six watercolours which were executed during the artist's stay in his house in Villeneuve on the Geneva lake. Each of these works illustrate a mythological scene.