Girl with Doll

ca. 1921

Oskar Kokoschka Austrian, 1886-1980

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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

In Girl with Doll, Oskar Kokoschka applied densely painted multicolored blocks to the canvas to form a basic pattern in the carpet-like structure. The artist connected the two figures to the space surrounding them with these broad areas of color, giving the painted surface a unified quality. In place of spatial perspective, he employed color and light to define volume and depth. Kokoschka painted Girl with Doll during the time he spent in Dresden between 1916 and 1923. During that period, Kokoschka frequently returned to double-figure compositions that invoked the Christian iconography of the Madonna and Child.

Title Girl with Doll

Artwork Date ca. 1921

Artist Oskar Kokoschka

Life Dates 1886-1980

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Austrian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 36 × 32 inches (91.4 × 81.3 cm) Framed: 43 1/4 × 39 3/8 × 2 1/2 inches (109.9 × 100 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Bequest of Dr. William R. Valentiner

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 63.133

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Signed Signed, upper right: OK

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1963-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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