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Egon Schiele

Self-Portrait, 1912

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of Hildegard Bachert in memory of Otto Kallir

Catalogue Raisonné

Kallir 1990, no. 1174

Accession Number

1997.127.1

Artists / Makers

Egon Schiele (artist) Austrian, 1890 - 1918

Image Use

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Inscription

center right in graphite: EGON / SCHIELE / 1912

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Anonymous
Anonymous
Galerie St. Etienne
Hauer, Leopold
Kallir, Otto

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.

1964: 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.

1985: 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.