Mrs. Johanna Lowy

Inscription: Signed (lower left, in black crayon): OK; inscribed and signed (verso, lower center, in graphite): Jede Art der Reproduction / von merines openelleu / Ein[illegible] abhängig / O Kokoschka

[Richard Lanyi, Vienna, by 1921–23; sold on June 11, 1923, Kr. 1,120,000, to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (1923–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1939–82; his bequest to MMA)

Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 132 (as "Portrait of Mrs. Lanyi").

New York. Galerie St. Etienne. "Watercolors and Drawings by Austrian Artists from the Dial Collection," May 2–28, 1960, no catalogue.

Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 56 (as "Portrait of Mrs. Lanyi").

New York. Galerie St. Etienne. "Richard Gerstl / Oskar Kokoschka," March 17–May 9, 1992, no. 45.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Faces and Figures: German and Austrian Artists, 1918–1933," December 15, 1992–April 12, 1993, no catalogue.

Victor Wallerstein. "Die Neuen Werke Oskar Kokoschkas." Kunst und Künstler 20 (November 1, 1921), pp. 46, 48, ill. p. 49, calls it "Alte Frau" and locates it in the collection of Richard Lanyi, Vienna.

Paul Westheim. Oskar Kokoschka. Berlin, 1925, pl. 122, calls it "Alte Frau".

Dial 80 (June 1926), ill. opp. p. 500.

Oskar Kokoschka. Kokoschka Handzeichnungen. Berlin, [1935], pl. 101, dates it about 1920.

Edith Hoffmann. Kokoschka: Life and Work. London, 1947, p. 310, no. 131, calls it "Old Woman (Mrs. Lanyi)".

Louisa Dresser. Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar 24 (April 1959), ill. p. 26, calls it "Mrs. Lanyi".

Alice Mundt in The Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, p. 92, no. 132.

Dore Ashton. "Art: Austrian Draftsmen." New York Times (May 3, 1960), p. 79.

R[ichard]. H[ayes]. "Reviews and Previews: The Dial Collection." Art News 59 (May 1960), p. 15, ill.

Nathan Goldstein. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 3rd ed. (1st ed., 1973). Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1984, p. 15, fig. 1.13, calls it "Portrait of Mrs. Lanyi".

Alice Strobl. "Kokoschka im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Ausstellungsrezensionen und erster Monographien während seiner Dresdener Zeit." Artibus et Historiae 31, no. 61 (2010), p. 175.