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Red Wine and a Beheading: Oskar Kokoschka and His Life-Sized Doll

Oskar Kokoschka was a Renaissance man with a pulpy, pulsing passion running through his veins. His passion seems to have been both an intense blessing and a curse. One evening, with red wine overpowering him, Kokoschka beheaded the life-sized doll that could never replace his lost love, Alma Mahler. After a fiery relationship with Mahler, […]

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