Egon Schiele

(Probably) Fritz & Grete Blaskopf, Vienna & London
Peter Spelman & Alexandra Aldham, England (by descent from the above and sold: Sotheby's, London, December 5, 1985, lot 442)
Acquired at the above sale by A. Alfred Taubman

Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1990, no. 1048, illustrated p. 468
Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1998, no. 1048, illustrated p. 468

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet was prepared with a think layer of white primer. The edges have been cut irregularly. Some faint flattened creases, notably running diagonally in the right and left corners. Some minor stains from old framer's table visible in the verso of the upper corners. The sheet is lightly time stained and there are a few scattered faint spots of foxing, otherwise fine. This work is in good condition.
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“It is always a pleasure to look at drawings by Egon Schiele. Superb how, while completely renouncing light and shade, tone and colour, the entire life, the whole expression of the subject appears captured in the contour alone.”

Adalbert Seligmann quoted in Peter Vergo, Art in Vienna 1898-1918, London, 1975, p. 241