  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
  
  
  
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  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
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 36 × 32 inches (91.4 × 81.3 cm)
  Framed: 43 1/4 × 39 3/8 × 15 1/2 inches (109.9 × 100 × 39.4 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
  
  
  Copyright
  Restricted
