Oskar Kokoschka and Wiener Werkstätte
The Girl Li and I
1916
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Color lithograph, Sheet: 240 × 293 mm. (9 7/16 × 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Collection of LeRoy E. Hoffberger and Paula Gately Tillman Hoffberger
Object Number
2017.21
The Wiener Werkstätte published the book under its own imprint (in an edition of 500). As anticipated, the work sold poorly. In 1917, publisher Kurt Wolff, who had befriended the artist, reissued 275 remainder copies.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2017; LeRoy Hoffberger, Baltimore; purchased from Ferdinand Roten
Inscribed: VERSO: at lower left, in graphite: "Kokoschka 'Wie Taumenden Knaben' 117-206-10"; in different hand: "91/275"
