Blumenstillleben. 1969.
Watercolor.
Lower right signed and dated. On laid paper (watermark as artist's monogram). 57 x 39 cm (22.4 x 15.3 in), size of sheet. [CH].

• Kokoschka executed the lively, colorful watercolor on paper without a preliminary drawing.
• Both the artist's 's drawing and painting skills are particularly concentrated in his sought-after, naturalistic flower watercolors.
• The artist was particularly successful in the later years of his career: he participated in the Venice Biennale in 1948, in documenta I, II and III in 1955, 1959 and 1964, and was honored with a grand retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London in 1962 and the Belvedere in Vienna in 1971.
• The artist's drawings and watercolors are now in the world's most prestigious museums and collections, including the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Switzerland (obtained from the artist in 1970).