ID 1380899
Lot 37 | EGON SCHIELE (1890-1918)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
Hockender weiblicher Torso (recto); Weiblicher Halbakt (verso)
signed and dated 'EGON SCHIELE 1912' (lower right, recto) and inscribed 'TORSO' (upper right, recto)
watercolour and pencil on paper (recto); pencil on paper (verso)
12 x 18 ½ in. (30.4 x 46.8 cm.)
Executed in 1912
Provenance
Alfred Spitzer, Vienna, by 1923.
Hannah Spitzer, Vienna & New York, by descent from the above.
Galerie St. Etienne, New York, by whom acquired from the above in 1966.
Georg Waechter Memorial Foundation, Geneva, by whom acquired from the above on 14 January 1970, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 11 November 2021, lot 75C.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
M.V. Manera, Le arti a Vienna, exh. cat., Vienna, 1984, p. 141 (recto illustrated fig. 1).
J. Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1998, no. 1012, p. 464 (verso; illustrated) & no. 1119, p. 477 (recto; illustrated p. 476).
Exhibited
Vienna, Hagenbund & Neue Galerie, Gedächtnisausstellung Egon Schiele, October - November 1928 (ex. cat.).
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art and Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, July - September 1957, no. 33.
New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Egon Schiele, Watercolors and Drawings, Memorial Exhibition, October - December 1968, no. 13, p. 40 (recto illustrated p. 41).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Egon Schiele, February - May 1975, no. 161, p. 42 (recto illustrated).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Schiele, February - May 1995, no. 80, p. 146 (recto illustrated).
| Artist: | Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil, Painted, Watercolor on paper, Watercolor |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil, Painted, Watercolor on paper, Watercolor |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
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