Chalk drawing. Signed and dated in the lower right. 30 x 46.5 cm. , nearly the full sheet.
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• Masterfully executed drawing from the last year of the prematurely deceased artist's life.
• Made in the key year 1918: Schiele's artistic significance is evident in his sold-out exhibition at the Vienna Secession in March.
• Schiele opens up a new perspective on portraiture with this unconventional bird's-eye view.
• Significant provenance: formerly part of the renowned Serge Sabarsky Collection, New York, and in private hands for over 40 years.
• For the first time on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Comparable drawings from this creative period can be found in important museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Albertina, Vienna.
We are grateful to Jane Kallir, Kallir Research Institute, New York, for her kind expert advice.
LITERATURE: Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele. The Complete Works. Including a Biography and a Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1990, cat. no. 2174 (illustrated in b/w). Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele. The Complete Works. Including a Biography and a Catalogue Raisonné, Expanded Edition, New York 1998, cat. no. D 2174 (illustrated in b/w).