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- Oskar Kokoschka 1886–1980
- Recipient
- Dr J. P. Hodin
- Title
- Letter from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin
- Date
- 4 October 1973
- 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 20062/4/199/4/8
Description
[Translation/transcription]
4 October 1973
My dearest Pepi,
When you recall your youth in the Viennese coffee houses you must now appear to yourself as an alien lecturing on art history in the African jungle, surrounded by [pen drawing] and [pen drawing] and [pen drawing].
I'd like to have seen photos of you and I'd also like a copy of Hellas soon, which you wrote for me though you were six thousand miles away. So far away and still you remember me, despite risk to life and limb from the beasts and the mosquitos and the virus. Did the three of you get back unscathed? I'm sure it was restorative for the beautyfull one, while the witch (judging by her picture in the Daily Telegraph) seems quite at home in the jungle, with eyes like a sleepwalker who sees only ghosts.
So long and see you all soon,
In love forever, yours 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, 1970-9 TGA 20062/4/199/4 (13)
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- Letter from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/199/4/8