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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Egon Schiele

Zwei kleine Mädchen (Two Little Girls)

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March 7, 03:05 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Egon Schiele

1890 - 1918


Zwei kleine Mädchen (Two Little Girls)

signed Schiele and dated 1911 (lower right)

pencil on paper

44.8 by 31.7 cm. 17 ⅝ by 12 ½ in.

Framed: 69.8 by 55.9 cm. 27 ½ by 22 in.

Executed in 1911.

Heinrich Benesch, Vienna

Edgar Howard, New York

Serge Sabarsky, New York (acquired from the above 27 April 1971)

Estate of Serge Sabarsky, New York (acquired from the above in 1996)

Vally Sabarsky, New York (Serge Sabarsky's widow; acquired by descent from the above )

Vally Sabarsky Trust, New York (acquired by 2002)

Acquired in May 2012 from the above by the present owner

Vienna, Historiches Museum der Stadt Wien; Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz; Munich, Museum Villa Stuck and Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Egon Schiele, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, 1981, no. 41, illustrated

Paris, Hotel de Ville; Kaisers-Lautern, Pfalzgalerie; Bolzano, Museo Civico and Turin, Palazzo Reale, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele: Dessins et Aquarelles, 1984-85, no. 71, illustrated

Tokyo, Isetan Museum; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum; Nara, Nara Prefectural Museum and Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum, Egon Schiele und Wien zur Jahrundertwende, 1986, no. 35, p. 87, illustrated in colour

Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Egon Schiele, 1987, no. 50, p. 102, illustrated in colour (titled Deux petites filles)

Rosenheim, Stadische Galerie Rosenheim; Florence, Palazzo Strozzi; Herford, Herforder Kunstverein im Daniel-Poppelmann-Haus; Leverkusen, Erholungshaus der Bayer A.G.; Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst; Bari, Castello Svevo; Genoa; Museo Villa Croce; Ferrara, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo Massari; Rosyln, Nassau County Museum of Art; Linz, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum; Bietigheim-Bissingen, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen; Berlin, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum; Passau, Museum moderner Kunst; Ulm, Ulmer Museum and Prague, Palais Wallenstein, Egon Schiele: 100 Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, 1988-92, no. 38

Paris, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Egon Schiele, œuvres sur papier, 1992-93, no. 38, n.p., illustrated in colour (titled Deux petites filles)

Vienna, BAWAG Foundation, Egon Schiele, 1993, no. 46

Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet; Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec; Lisbon, Culturgest and Aschaffenburg, Galerie Jesuitenkirche, Egon Schiele: cent œuvres sur papier, 1993, no. 39

Blumeninsel Mainau, Schloß Mainau, Egon Schiele: Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, 1994, no. 39

Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Egon Schiele, 1995, no. 73, p. 139, illustrated in colour (titled Deux petites filles)

Bad Frankenhausen, Panorama Museum and Klagenfurt, Städtische Galerie Klagenfurt, Egon Schiele: 100 Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, 1996, no. 41

New York, The Serge Sabarsky Foundation, Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors, 1996

Cracow, International Cultural Centre and Ljubljana, Cankarjev Dom, Egon Schiele, 1997, no. 41

Serge Sabarsky, Egon Schiele, Milan, 1984, no. 64, illustrated in colour

Serge Sabarsky, Egon Schiele, 1890-1918: A Centennial Retrospective, 1990, no. 38, illustrated in colour

Serge Sabarsky, Egon Schiele, Vienna, 1993, no. 46, illustrated in colour

Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele, The Complete Works, The Expanded Edition, New York, 1998, no. 765, p. 435, illustrated

Renée Price, Egon Schiele: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, Prestel, 2005, no. D76, p. 251 and 410, illustrated in colour (titled Two little girls)