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Egon Schiele

Zwei Proletarierkinder (Two Proletarian Children)

Auction Closed

June 25, 04:41 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Egon Schiele

1890 - 1918


Zwei Proletarierkinder (Two Proletarian Children)

signed Schiele and dated 10 (lower right)

watercolour, charcoal and pencil on paper

43.8 by 30.8 cm. 17¼ by 12⅛ in. 

Executed in 1910.

Galerie Würthle, Vienna

Elizabeth Pelz, London (acquired from the above in 1929)

Private Collection, London (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1992, lot 28 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Vienna, Galerie Würthle, Moderne Graphik, 1929, no. 232, illustrated (titled Proletarierkinder)

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Egon Schiele: Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings, 1964, no. 37, pp. 41 and 46, illustrated (titled Two Children)

London, Fischer Fine Art, Egon Schiele: Oils, Watercolours, Drawings and Graphic Work, 1972, no. 18 (titled Two Children)

Michael Hamburger, "Egon Schiele 1: The Background", in Studio International, vol. 168, October 1964, p. 168, illustrated (titled Two Children)

Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele, The Complete Works, New York, 1990, no. 410, pp. 394-395, illustrated