Egon Schiele

Viktor Fogarassy, Graz
Galerie Würthle, Vienna
Private Swiss Collection (and sold: Sotheby's, London, December 3, 1986, lot 458)
Stockler Collection (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 1998, lot 201)
Private Collection, California (acquired at the above sale)
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 10, 2007, lot 126
Acquired at the above sale

Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1990, no. 1244, illustrated on p. 493 (noted as possibly colored by another hand)

Work is in very good condition. Executed on cream wove paper. Sheet is not laid down and is hinged to mount at upper corners. Some foxing and discolored fibers in sheet visible in scattered areas. Two pinholes with minor surface abrasion center of right edge, artist's pinhole at bottom center. Some minor dirt on verso of sheet, otherwise fine. Work is in very good condition.
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1913 marked Egon Schiele's spiritual departure from a young adulthood occupied by inner turmoil and the anxiety of sexual awakening. As he stepped out of his vice and into a new maturity, his work, too, traded its blatant eroticism for a new tenderness, its voyeurism for an attentive intimacy. Inching away from his exploitation of the angular body's dramatic expressivity, the present work frames what Jane Kallir describes as Schiele's rendering of "rounder, more wholesome shapes...[that] differ in their ability to evoke an underlying structure of bone and muscle" (Jane Kallir, op. cit., p. 490).