ID: 700000330 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000330	Record Type: Movable Work
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Self Portrait as a Warrior (bust (figure); Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian, 1886–1980; 1909; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 60.958; )

Note: Bust. Head turned right. Open mouth showing white teeth. Blue eyes, various red, blue and yellow on face and hair. This self portrait bust marks Kokoschka's first realization of an expressionist style. It was first displayed in 1909, to critical disregard. It was subsequently acquired by Adolf Loos, the architect and critic.

Titles:

Self Portrait as a Warrior (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

bust (general, figure) [300047457] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: 1909

Creator Display:

Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian, 1886–1980 [preferred,VP]

sculptor Kokoschka, Oskar (Austrian painter and printmaker, 1886-1980) Extent: execution [500024536]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Wien [7003321] Vienna state (state), Austria (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 60.958

Credit Line: John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund

Display Materials: Unfired clay painted with tempera

	clay [300010439]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	unfired clay [300404797]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, clay, <clay by composition or origin>)

Dimensions: 36.5 x 31.5 x 19.5 cm (14 3/8 x 12 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.)

Cultures:

Austrian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Modernist [300021474] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>)

	Expressionist (style) [300021502] (N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

portraits

Specific Subjects:

	Kokoschka, Oscar (Austrian painter and printmaker, 1886-1980) [500024536]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	self-portrait [300124534]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	bust (general, figure) [300047457]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

Copyright: © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pro Litteris, Zurich

Provenance: 1909 until 1933, Adolf Loos (b. 1870 - d. 1933), Vienna [see note 1]; acquired from the estate of Loos by Helene Scheu-Riesz (b. 1880 - d. 1970), Vienna and New York; 1956, still with Scheu-Riesz [see note 2]. By 1958, World House Galleries, New York; 1960, sold by World House Galleries to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1960)

Inscriptions: Signed on right shoulder: OK

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Self Portrait as a Warrior	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-) accessed 7 March 2018

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-) accessed 7 March 2018