Self-Portrait

1912

Egon Schiele

Artist, Austrian, 1890 - 1918

A man with large, dark eyes glowers at us from under black brows, one of which is lowered and the other cocked in this drawn, vertical portrait. The man’s face is angled slightly to our left, but he looks out with his red lips twisted up to our right. The planes of his cheeks, lines across his forehead, nose, and thin, narrow chin are painted lightly and broadly with pale gray and pale pink to suggest light skin tone and shadows. His black hair is tousled, and the open collar of his shirt is suggested with a few lines sketched in graphite and emphasized with strokes of black paint. The artist signed and dated the drawing to the right, “EGON SHIELE 1912.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite on light brown wove japan paper; partial sketch of face in graphite on verso

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Hildegard Bachert in memory of Otto Kallir

  • Dimensions

    overall: 34.9 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.127.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kallir 1990, no. 1174

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leopold Hauer [1896-1984], Vienna; Otto Kallir (Galerie St. Etienne, New York); Hildegard Bachert, New York, 1950; gift to NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1957

  • Egon Schiele (1890-1918): Watercolors and Drawings, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1957, no. 13.

1960

  • Egon Schiele: 1890-1918, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Galerie St. Etienne, New York; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1960-61, no. 27.

1963

  • 20th Century Master Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1963-64, no. 110.

1965

  • Egon Schiele (1890-1918): Watercolors and Drawings from American Collections, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1965, no. 38.

1968

  • Egon Schiele (1890-1918): Watercolors and Drawings, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1968, no. 46.

1975

  • Egon Schiele, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975, no. 154.

1984

  • Arnold Schoenberg's Vienna, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1984-1985, no. 28.

1986

  • Otto Kallir-Nirenstein: Ein Wegbereiter österreichischer Kunst, Historiches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna, 1986, no. 162.

1994

  • Egon Schiele, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Indianapolis Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art, 1994, no. 57.

1999

  • Saved from Europe: Otto Kallir and the History of the Galerie St. Etienne. Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1999-2000, no. 19.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002, no. 20.

2009

  • Egon Schiele as Printmaker: A Loan Exhibition Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 2009-2010.

2018

  • Egon Schiele, Foundation Louis Vuitton Pour la Creation, Paris, 2018-2019.

2019

  • The Expressionist Legacy, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 2019-2020.

Bibliography

1961

  • "A Short, Tormented Span." Time Magazine (13 January 1961): 60-62.

1964

  • Comini, Alessandra. "Egon Schiele in Prison." Albertina Studien 2, no. 4 (1964): 135.

  • Johnson, Una E. 20th Century Drawings, Part I. New York, 1964: pl. 15.

1966

  • Zoege von Manteuffel, Claus. Moderne Zeichnungen von 1900 bis 1940. Hamburg, 1966: 47.

1969

  • "Egon Schiele." Mizue 776 (September 1969): 1.

1974

  • Comini, Alessandra. Egon Schiele's Portraits. Berkeley, 1974: 97, pl. 88.

1980

  • Kinneir, Joan, ed. The Artist by Himself: Self-Portrait Drawings from Youth to Old Age. London, 1980: 60.

1981

  • Malins, Frederick. Drawing Ideas of the Old Masters. Oxford, 1981: 23.

1982

  • Malafarina, Gianfranco. L'Opere di Egon Schiele. Milan, 1982: no. D45.

1985

  • "Art Across North America: Outstanding Exhibitions," Apollo (January 1985): 62, fig. 8.

  • Stretch, Bonnie Barrett. "Egon Schiele." Art and Auction 7, no. 9 (April 1985): 117.

1990

  • Kallir, Jane. Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, Including a Biography and Catalogue Raisonne. New York: 1990.

1999

  • Kallir, Jane. Saved from Europe:Otto Kallir and the History of the Galerie St. Etienne. New York, 1999: plate 19.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 20.

2003

  • Kallir, Jane. Egon Schiele, Drawings and Watercolors. London, 2003, 218-219.

Inscriptions

center right in graphite: EGON / SCHIELE / 1912

Wikidata ID

Q64557989

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