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Still Life With Candlestick & Bread
Still Life With Candlestick & Bread
Still Life With Candlestick & Bread

Still Life With Candlestick & Bread

Artist (Pöchlarn, Austria, 1886 - 1980)
Date1916
Mediumwatercolour on paper
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsSight Size: Height: 27 cm, Width: 36 cm
Frame: Height: 38.8 cm, Width: 47.8 cm
AcquisitionMarguerite McBey Bequest, 2000.
Copyright© DACS / All Rights Reserved
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG013764
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About Me
A few years before she met James McBey, Marguerite Loeb had met and fallen in love with the Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka. They had intended to marry but she was below the age of consent and her father had forbidden the match.

Nevertheless they stayed in touch and he presented her with several examples of his work, including this still life. Such paintings give a clear indication of how Kokoschka's watercolour style, rather than that of James McBey, was the inspiration for her when she took up painting in watercolour herself many years later.