Kokoschka’s "Erotik" is not about the voyeuristic enjoyment of the nude. It is about . His art suggests that to love someone is to engage in a battle where one's ego is at risk.
: He treated the doll as a living companion, escorting it to the opera, hiring a maid to dress it, and throwing parties in its honor. kokoshka erotik
After Alma left him and married architect Walter Gropius, a devastated Kokoschka commissioned doll-maker Hermine Moos to create a life-sized, anatomically detailed effigy of her in 1919. escorting it to the opera