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- Oskar Kokoschka 1886–1980
- Recipient
- Dr J. P. Hodin
- Title
- Letter from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin
- Date
- 21 October 1968
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Tate, 2006. Accrual presented by Annabel Hodin, 2020
- Reference
- TGA 20062/4/199/3/39
Description
[Translation/transcription]
Villeneuve
21 October 1968
My very dear Master Pepi,
Wolfgang Fischer, beaming with joy and vicarious pride, yesterday brought me the news that you've received the Austrian Order of the Garter, first class. This came just as I was unpacking your big book from Kupferberg Verlag, which you've worked on for twenty years of your life and for which fate will have to grant me at least half as many years if I am ever to finish reading it! Olda and I are quite sure that you'll bring your gleaming star with you, first for us to admire and second so we can take you and the star to see our friends so we can show it off with you. My [illegible] and her beautiful Indian mother can hardly wait to see it. My dear Pepi, you've really made us very happy and I congratulate you on this splendid and well deserved accolade, for you are a noble flagbearer for culture in the best possible sense. And with your sash and your star I'm sure you must look like a noble, like a knight of the rose perhaps, especially if you were also to have some knee breeches made, and the beautyfull one will certainly be delighted, and when you see yourself in the mirror in all your livery, all the cares of those hard years of toil and struggle and indifference from contemporaries will be washed away, my dear Pepi! We're very much looking forward to seeing you both and I'm already embracing you as your old OK
Archive context
- Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
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- Correspondence by sender TGA 20062/4 (275)
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- Correspondence between Oskar Kokoschka and J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/199 (112)
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- Correspondence from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin, 1960-9 TGA 20062/4/199/3 (43)
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- Letter from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/199/3/39