Adèle Astaire

1926

on display

Oskar Kokoschka1886 Pöchlarn – 1980 Montreux

Adèle Astaire (1897-1981), the sister of dancer and actor Fred Astaire, sang and danced with her brother on Broadway in New York in a series of highly successful musicals. In 1926 she appeared on a tour in London, where Kokoschka painted her. On the grand piano on the left is a score, probably to her song 'Lady be Good', with a painting of 'Leda and the Swan' visible behind it.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Portrait Adèle Astaire Bildnis Adèle Astaire [historic]

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 97 x 130.5 cm

Inventory number

1947/0008

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, 1947

Signature

inscr. u. l.: OK LONDON 26

Inscriptions

Accession year

1947

Provenance

Oskar Kokoschka (*1886 Pöchlarn, +1980 Montreux) (Künstler/-in)
18.12.1926, Galerie Paul Cassirer (Galerie), Berlin und Amsterdam
o.D. – 1947, Walter Feilchenfeldt (*1894 Berlin, +1953 Zürich) (Kunsthändler/-in), Zürich
ab 1947, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Kauf

Provenance category

About the provenance

State of research 01.01.2007 Do you have questions, criticism, suggestions, and further information? Please send us a message to provenienzforschung(at)kunsthaus.ch.

Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 635. - Johann Winkler/Katharina Erling: Oskar Kokoschka. Die Gemälde 1906–1929, Salzburg: Welz, 1995, No. 226 (ill.). - Masterpieces from the Kunsthaus Zürich, hrsg. von Detmar Westhoff/Philippe Büttner, Ausst.-Kat. The National Art Center, Tokyo/Kobe City Museum, Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 2014, S. 105, 108 (ill.). - Hans Martin Wingler: Oskar Kokoschka. Das Werk des Malers, Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1956, No. 214. - Oskar Kokoschka. 1886-1980, Ausst.-Kat. Tate Gallery London/Kunsthaus Zürich/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, Zürich, 1986, No. 63.

Object type

painting

Classification

D 1[2] art 20th century worldwide

Keywords