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Oskar Kokoschka

The Bay, 1947

  • Author:
    Oskar Kokoschka
  • Bio:
    Pöchlarn, Áustria, 1886-Montreaux, Suíça ,1980
  • Title:
    The Bay
  • Date:
    1947
  • Medium:
    Lápis de cor
  • Dimensions:
    25 x 35,5 cm
  • Credit line:
    Doação Samuel Ribeiro; Indústrias Químicas e Farmacêuticas Schering S.A.; Conde Silvio Álvares Penteado; Rosalina Coelho Lisboa de Larragoiti, Antonio Sanches de Larragoiti Junior; Gladston Jafet. Henry Borden; Major Kenneth Mc Crimmon;Guilherme Guinle; Moinho Santista S.A.; Um anônimo; Ernesto Walter; Omar Radler de Aquino, 1949
  • Object type:
    Desenho
  • Inventory number:
    MASP.03713
  • Photography credits:
    João Musa

TEXTS



The Bay (Nevin Bay?) probably refers to Nevin Bay in North Wales, a place that Kokoschka loved drawing in colored chalk. The work is typical of Kokoschka’s postwar development linked to painting wide-open spaces, expressing the psychic world of the painter and tending towards a clear palette and a return to plein-air neo-Impressionism. It is difficult not to associate the particularly arid and sterile nature of this landscape to the artist’s profoundly depressed spirit at the end of the war as seen in Kokoschka’s letter to Alfred Neumayer in 1946: “the world that I would love to find again, where I journeyed as a happy wanderer is not there anymore. Great cities have disappeared off the face of the earth, great countries have become deserts (...). I cannot live in such a world”.

— Unknown authorship, 1998

Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).



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