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Description: Studien zu "Frau in Blau" signed with initials lower right OK, signed, dated and dedicated lower center O Kokoschka 1920 for Mrs. Leslie Roden original drawing - - pen and India ink on paper 21 x 14 3/4 in. (53.3 x 37.5 cm.) Drawn in 1919 PROVENANCE Gift from the artist to the present owner EXHIBITED Munich, Haus der Kunst, Oskar Kokoschka Ausstellung, Sept.-Oct., 1950, no. 150 (illustrated; titled Hingabe). The exhibition traveled to Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Nov.-Dec., 1950. Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, Oskar Kokoschka, Feb.-March, 1951, no. 93 LITERATURE B. Bultmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Salzburg, 1960, p. 27 (illustrated) E. Rathenau, Oskar Kokoschka Handzeichnungen, 1906-1965, Miami, 1970, p. 117 (illustrated; titled Devotion) ed. Olda Kokoschka and H. Spielmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Briefe I, 1905-1919, Dusseldorf, 1984, p. 297 (illustrated; titled Sitzende Frau).