Watercolor on paper, drawing. From a private collection. 6,7 x 9,1 in. (17 x 23 cm). Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980, Austrian). It is being sold in the manner or style of the artist. Composition with a seated nude woman.

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist and poet known for his Expressionist portraits and landscapes. Characterized by staccato brushstrokes and bright colors, the artist created works that seem to shiver with energy. A leading figure in Vienna’s avant-garde alongside Egon Schiele, in 1912, he began an affair with Alma Mahler the widow of composer Gustav Mahler and former lover of Walter Gropius. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, he travelled across Europe, developing his distinctive method of exaggerated portraiture that dramatized his sitters’ psychological states.