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TITLE:
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Aristoteles und Phyllis
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WORK DATE:
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1914
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CATEGORY:
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Prints
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MATERIALS:
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Original lithograph
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MARKINGS:
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Initialed in pencil lower right and signed in the stone
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SIZE:
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h: 11 x w: 10.9 in / h: 27.9 x w: 27.7 cm
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REGION:
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Austrian
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DESCRIPTION:
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A fine impression with full margins. Ours is one of 30 signed and numbered impressions with large margins from the portfolio edition. There was also a book edition of 200 for Die chinesische Mauer / The Chinese wall (Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1914). The image depicts the philosopher Aristotle saddled and ridden by Phyllis, a young woman whom he had previously told Alexander to avoid, because rulers needed to rule their passions. After Aristotle himself fell in love with her, she punished him by showing him that men are indeed the slaves of their lusts. A favorite theme in the art of the early German Renaissance, Kokoschka is here reviving it in recognition of his own enslavement to his desires for Alma Mahler.
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