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The Obsession of Oskar Kokoschka: Alma Mahler, Love Letters, and the Life-Size Doll
When Alma Mahler ended her passionate affair with artist Oskar Kokoschka, he struggled to let go. In his grief, Kokoschka commissioned a life-sized doll in her likeness—an eerie creation he wined, dined, and paraded through Vienna, before destroying it in a dramatic finale.
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