Child with flowers and cat
Finding on the reverse:
A yellowed label on the upper left of the stretcher: „Artist Kokoschka Oskar (1886) / Title Girl with flowers and birdcage / sgd & dtd upper right OK.20 / Medium oil on canvas / Date 1920 / size 50 x 31,5 ins. / 127 x 80 cm / No. 02555“, next to it a partially torn off sticker: „Institute of Modern (crossed out) Contemporary Art / 138. Newbury Street Boston 16 Mass. / Owner Mr.../ Return to (torn off) / Title Girl with Flowe / Artist Iskar Kokoschka / Medium: oil on canvas“, next to it handwritten in chalk: “191 Wort oder 1919 Wort q”, next to it handwritten in red: “Atege 5666”, next to it a partially torn off sticker: „Museum of Modern Art / LOAN / No. 49.1779“, on the vertical centre strut a yellowed sticker with a jagged edge: „No. 18992 (crossed out) / Kokoschka / Kl. Mädchen mit Blumen / Maße 129 x 81 cm“, below it a partially torn off sticker: “Title & Year Girl with Birdcage / Artist Oskar Kokoschka / Medium & Size Oil 50,5 x 32 / No. 1604 / Foto (leer)”, below it a white sticker: „Stendahl Galleries / No. (leer) / 3006 Wilshire Blvd. (crossed out), Los Angeles / 7055 Hillside Ave. / Artist Oskar Kokoschka / TITLE Girl w th FLowers and Birdcage (1920) / PRICE (empty) / SIZE 50 x 21 / BIN (empty)“, with a round stamp in the upper right corner: illegible EN LAND / in the centre an eagle, underneath remains of a detached sticker without content, on the horizontal centre bar on the left label BStGS: „Inv.- No. 13091“, next to it handwritten: “PR”, next to it a red sticker: “FRAGILE”, next to it handwritten in red: “AC”, next to it a yellow sticker: ’The Arts Council of Great Britain / 4 St. James Square, London S.W.1 Telephone Whitehall 9737 / Exhibition Kokoschka / Cat. No. 57 / Title Gir with Flowers and Cat / Owner Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich’, on the frame top left handwritten: “Wz R 27/8”, next to it handwritten in blue: “K 34”, next to it an elongated sticker: „Künstler: Kokoschka Adresse (leer) / Titel: Mädchen mit Blumen / Eigentümer: Bayer. Staatsgemäldesammlungen, München / ATEGE-München-Kunssttransporte“, next to it handwritten in chalk: “57”, next to it handwritten in black: “Ks 9”, left centre handwritten in red: “25”, bottom left upside down handwritten in blue: “46”, bottom right white sticker: “Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen / München / Gemäldeprotokoll Nr. 22-02”, next to it handwritten in black: „Inv. 13091“
29.09.1925 - undated, Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin, presumably acquired from Richard Lányi;
undated - May 1939, whereabouts unknown;
at least May 1939 - at least 1940, Buchholz Gallery Curt Valentin, New York;
at least 1948 - at the latest 1960, Charlotte Sargent Mack, née Dillingham Smith (1880 - 1969), San Francisco;
n.d. - 1960, Galerie des Arts Anciens et Modernes, Schaan (Lichtenstein), possibly on commission from Marlborough Fine Art, London;
since 1960, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, acquired from the Galerie des Arts Anciens et Modernes, Schaan/Lichtenstein (no. VII 89444 of 15.11.1960)
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