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OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"
Classical Sources:
Plato, Symposium, 179c-e
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl., 4.25.4, 81-82
Vergil, Georgics 4.315-558
Ovid Metamorphoses 10.1-85, 11.66
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2
Hyginus Poet. Astron. 2.7

Oskar Kokoschka, "Orpheus and Eurydice," painting, 1917. Sold at Sotheby's auction Nov 2010 .

Kokoschka's stage play, Orpheus und Eurydike (click), predates this painting by nearly a decade.

Two seated figures, one nude and one clothed, with an implied background of reclining figures in an expressive, painterly style

Reid cites

H. Wingler, Oskar Kokoschka: the work of the painter (Salzburg: Welz, 1958), no. 117, and

Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, Oskar Kokoschka, 1886 - 1980 ... p. 208

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.