Word: kokoshka
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Some of the largest sales of the evening were: a Kokoshka crayon drawing sold for $850, a Baskin wood engraving sold for $585, and a Vassarely silkscreen sold...
...Kokoshka did not employ this style for long. Working in Vienna at the same time Freud was elaborating the theories of psychoanalysis, he executed a striking series of portraits which resemble flights into the subconscious, and which mark his departure into expressionism...
...from Lithuania by his shoemaker father, he was raised humbly in Boston. Bloom was introduced to painting in a settlement house, continued it on the WPA and gained fame in the early '40s. His first important canvases showed the influence of the European expressionists Chaim Soutine and Oskar Kokoshka. He applied their color-by-the-gob technique to molten-seeming canvases of rabbis, chandeliers, brides, Christmas trees, buried treasure and, finally, corpses. At 40, Bloom exercises a control of his medium as elaborate, and theatrical, as Caravaggio's. His steady gain in dexterity is offset by a restriction...
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