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Egon Schiele

Danaë

Estimate

12,000,000 - 18,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Egon Schiele

1890 - 1918


Danaë

signed Schiele Egon and dated 1909 (lower right)

oil and metallic paint on canvas

80.5 by 125.7 cm. 31⅝ by 49½ in.

Executed in 1909.

Herr Kohn, Vienna (probably until 1928) 

Karl Rob (Robitsek) (Rob-Verlag), Vienna (acquired by 1928) 

Siegfried and Gesche Poppe, Hamburg (acquired by 1961) 

Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above circa 1985)

Private Collection (acquired from the above) 

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Vienna, Neue Galerie, Gedächtnis Egon Schiele, 1928, no. 4 

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Art autrichien du vingtième siècle, 1961, no. 177 

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Vom Impressionismus zum Bauhaus: Meisterwerke aus deutschem Privatbesitz, 1966, no. 72, illustrated in colour 

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Egon Schiele, 1975, no. 17, illustrated 

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Experiment Weltuntergang: Wien um 1900, 1981, no. 160, illustrated

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art and San Diego Museum of Art, Egon Schiele, 1994, no. 2, illustrated in colour

Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Egon Schiele, 2003, no. 10, illustrated in colour

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (extended loan 2011-12)

Philadelphia Museum of Art (extended loan 2013-15)

Philadelphia Museum of Art (extended loan 2017)

New York, Neue Galerie, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele: 1918 Centenary, 2018

Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Egon Schiele, 2018-19, no. 17, illustrated in colour

New York, Neue Galerie, Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes, 2024-25, n.n., illustrated 

New York, Neue Galerie (extended loan 2017-26)

Arthur Roessler, "Egon Schiele," Bildende Künstler: Monatsschrift für Künstler und Kunstfreunde, vol. I, no. 3, 1911, p. 106

Otto Nirenstein, Egon Schiele: Persönlichkeit und Werk, Vienna, 1930, no. 51, pl. 21, illustrated 

Werner Hofmann, Modern Painting in Austria, Vienna, 1965, p. 68, pl. 30, illustrated in colour

Otto Kallir, Egon Schiele, Œuvre Catalogue of Paintings, New York, 1966, no. 92, pp. 190-91, illustrated

Edgar Hurtlein, “Frühe Zeichnungen von Egon Schiele", Alte und Moderne Kunst, no. 12, November-December 1967, p. 38, fig. 15, illustrated 

Österreichische Galerie, ed., Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Galerie, vol. 12, no. 56, 1968, p. 124

Christian M. Nebehay, Gustav Klimt, Dokumentation, Vienna, 1969, no. 607, p. 476, illustrated

Rudolf Leopold, Egon Schiele, Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1972, no. 130, pp. 59 & 543, illustrated

Peter Vergo, Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their contemporaries, 1975, p. 229 (dated 1908)

Alessandra Comini, Egon Schiele, New York, 1976, pl. 52a, illustrated 

Janet Hobhouse, The Bride Stripped Bare, The Artist and the Nude in the Twentieth Century, New York, 1980, no. 41, p. 55, illustrated 

Frank Whitford, Egon Schiele, New York and Toronto, 1981, pl. 32, illustrated 

Gianfranco Malafarina, L'Opera di Schiele, Milan, 1982, no. 126, p. 88, illustrated

Gianfranco Malafarina, Tout l’œuvre peint de Schiele, Paris, 1983, no. 126, p. 88, illustrated 

Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen, vol. III, Salzburg, 1984, p. 160, illustrated 

Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Zurich; Vienna, Kunstforum Länderbank; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung and Wuppertal, Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Egon Schiele and His Contemporaries: Austrian Painting and Drawing from 1900 to 1930 from the Leopold Collection, Vienna, 1989, p. 45

Exh. Cat., Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Egon Schiele in der Albertina, 1990, illustrated opposite cat. no. 37

Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1990, no. 148, pp. 49 and 287, illustrated

Simon Wilson, Egon Schiele, London, 1993, p. 12

Lawrence J. Trudeau, ed., Modern Arts Criticism, vol. 4, Detroit, 1994, p. 250

Wolfgang G. Fischer, Egon Schiele 1890-1918. Pantomimen der Lust: Vision der Sterblichkeit, Cologne, 1994, pp. 70-71

Exh. Cat., Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Schiele, 1995, p. 22, fig. 3, illustrated

Christopher Short, Schiele, London, 1997, no. 4, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Shinjuku, Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art and Tsu, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Österreichische Malerei und Zeichnung von 1900 bis 1930, mit Schwerpunkt 'Egon Schiele,' aus dem Leopold Museum, Wien, 1997, p. 24, fig. 9, illustrated 

Achim Moeller, In Good Hands: 25 Years of Art in the Life of a Dealer, New York, 1997, p. 74, illustrated in colour

Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele, The Complete Works, Expanded Edition, New York, 1998, no. 148, pp. 49 and 287, illustrated

Kai Artinger, Egon Schiele: Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1999, p. 25

Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele. Life and Work, 2003, p. 49, fig. 23, illustrated 

Harald Fidler, Im Vorhof der Schlacht. Österreichs alte Medienmonopole und neue Zeitungskriege, Vienna, 2004, p. 19

Wolfgang Georg Fischer, Egon Schiele 1890-1918, Desire and Decay, Cologne, 2006, p. 71, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe and Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Hair - Photography by Herlinde Koelbl, 2007-08, p. 171

Josep Minguet, ed., Egon Schiele, Barcelona, 2008, p. 40 and p. 41, illustrated in colour

Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele’s Women, Munich, London and New York, 2012, no. 27, p. 45, illustrated in colour

Roman Neugebauer, Egon Schiele: An Illustrated Life, Prague, 2016, p. 32

Tobias G. Natter, Egon Schiele: The Complete Paintings 1909-1918, 2017, no. 6, pp. 47 and 464, illustrated in colour

Dieter Buchhart, ed., Connaissance des arts hors-série: Egon Schiele. Paris, 2018, pp. 48-49

Kallir Research Institute, "P148, Danae" Egon Schiele, The Complete Works Online, https://egonschieleonline.org/works/paintings/work/p148 (accessed 13 April 2026)