The painter Oskar Kokoschka was the ace of hearts among Alma’s four trump cards. Nevertheless she saw herself forced to break up with him since Kokoschka came more dangerously close to her inner being than any of her men before, or indeed after. Apart from the countless paintings which testify to this anguished relationship, there was also a saucy life–size doll, a faithful reproduction of Alma down to the most intimate details, which Kokoschka had made in 1915 in order to console himself for the loss of his loved one. The doll is destroyed at the climax of an extravagant masked ball at the end of the theatrical journey.