Live Auction 21888Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale
OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)
Lot 380

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)

Tigerlilien

Closed30 June 2023

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GBP 13,860

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OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)
Tigerlilien
signed and dated 'O Kokoschka 53' (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed 'for Elisabeth and Douglas S. Allen with my love OK Villeneuve, 55' (upper right)
gouache and watercolour on paper
22 x 15 1/8 in. (56 x 38.5 cm.)
Executed in 1953

Elisabeth & Douglas S. Allen, United States & France, a gift from the artist in 1955.
Private collection, France.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2022.

Specialist note


Douglas Stuart Allen (1923-2021) was an American artist who travelled to Europe after the Second World War to study the visual arts at the Accademia di belle Arti in Rome, as well as the Académie Julian and Académie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. Allen also trained under Oskar Kokoschka in the early 1950s, developing a lifelong mentorship and friendship with the German Expressionist artist.