KOKOSCHKA. IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ARTIST. (SIGNED BY KOKOSCHKA)

Second Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. First published in 1963. 4to. pp. 78, [i]. 50 coloured plates, including a portrait frontispiece, one black and white illustration. Original publisher's light blue cloth lettered dark blue on spine and upper cover. Turquoise and black illustrated unclipped dust jacket lettered black and white. Presentation copy: 'To Mr. David Barran with sincere thanks for allowing me to paint from your towering shell Oskar Kokoschka 22. v. 67.' Loosely inserted A4 printed description with small illustration of the painting Kokoschka produced from the top of the Shell-Mex building in 1959. His wife explained that he painted it entirely on the spot, without sketches, or preliminary studies of any kind. She also said it was arranged through Walter Neurath of Thames and Hudson who knew one of the directors. The book contains an earlier view of London painted in 1926. Sir David Barran (1912 Ð 2002) was one of Britain's most prominent business leaders as managing director and chairman of Shell. Oskar Kokoschka (1886 Ð 1980) was an Austrian artist well known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. A couple of minute white marks to cloth, dust jacket very slightly rubbed at head and foot, otherwise very good indeed. Slight wear, otherwise very good indeed.…