ORPHEUS UND EURYDIKE (ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE), Oskar Kokoschka

1886 - 1980

signed OK (upper left)
oil on canvas
70.5 by 50.8cm.
27 3/4 by 20in.
Painted in 1917.

Provenance:
Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the artist)

Hugo Simon, Berlin (acquired on 30th October 1917)

Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired on 1st February 1927)

Neue Galerie (Otto Nirenstein), Vienna (acquired on 16th March 1927)

Galerie St. Etienne (Otto Kallir (né Nirenstein)), New York (acquired by 1939)

Kende Galleries, New York (acquired from the above circa 1951)

Himan Brown, New York (sold: Sotheby's, New York, 2nd November 2010, lot 61)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner