1922
watercolor
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1922 watercolor by Oskar Kokoschka, depicting Sitting, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a girl sitting in a chair, her body loose and her face half-hidden by shadow. The colors are thin, almost see-through, like stained glass. Kokoschka painted this right after a bad breakup. The girl isn’t posing—she looks caught in the middle of a sigh. The way the watercolor bleeds at the edges makes her feel fragile, like she could dissolve. If you like how the paint feels alive, look up glazing. It’s how artists layer thin, transparent washes to build depth.
Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.
See the richer artist page
