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EGON SCHIELE (1890-1918)

Lot 3
17.11.2022 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 842763
Lot 3 | EGON SCHIELE (1890-1918)
Estimate value
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EGON SCHIELE (1890-1918)

Frau, das Gesicht verbergend

signed and dated 'EGON SCHIELE 1912.' (upper center)

gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper

12 1/4 x 18 7/8 in. (31.5 x 48 cm.)

Executed in 1912





Provenance

Franz Friedrich "Fritz" Grünbaum, Vienna (by 1938).

Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern (1956).

Galerie St. Etienne, New York (acquired from the above, 1956).

William Lincer, New York (acquired from the above, 1957).

Galerie St. Etienne, New York (acquired from the above, 1968).

Morris Moscowitz, St. Louis, Missouri (acquired from the above, 1968).

Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 18 May 1978, lot 123a.

Doris Rubin, New York (by 2007).

Richard Nagy, London (acquired from the Estate of the above, 18 December 2013).

Restituted to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum (2022).



Literature

"Egon Schiele" in Mizue, no. 870, September 1977, p. 21.

J. Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, Including a Biography and a Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1998, p. 475, no. 1101 (illustrated, p. 474).



Exhibited

Bern, Gutekunst & Klipstein, Egon Schiele: Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, September-October 1956, no. 22 (illustrated).

New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Egon Schiele: Watercolors and Drawings, January-February 1957, p. 14, no. 14.

New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Egon Schiele: Watercolors and Drawings, October-December 1968, p. 109, no. 47 (illustrated).

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Egon Schiele, February-May 1975, p. 42, no. 160 (illustrated).
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