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Market in Tunis

© Foundation Oskar Kokoschka/DACS 2024. Image credit: The Courtauld

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This view of the Place Bab Souika in Tunis was painted from the roof of a greengrocer’s shop. The city’s great domed mosque can be seen at the far left of the work. Kokoschka attempted to achieve a two focus perspective in an elliptical horizon, similar to the effect of a wide-angled photographic lens. The foreground gives a sense of the bright colours and ceaseless flow of human activity that so enthralled Kokoschka on his trip through Africa. Recalling his rooftop vantage point, Kokoschka wrote later that after having worked on this canvas for a week ‘with the painting almost completed, I fell through the roof of the shop, easel and all’.

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

London

Title

Market in Tunis

Date

1928–1929

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 86.5 x W 129 cm

Accession number

P.1978.PG.207

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Count Antoine Seilern, 1978

Work type

Painting

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