Kneeling Female Nude

Artist: Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918)

1911

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Graphite (recto and verso)

Dimensions

sheet: 22 × 14 1/4 in. (55.9 × 36.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S

Accession Number

1999.9.16a-b

Geography

Made in Austria

Culture

Austrian

Period

20th century

Classification

Drawings

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Provenance
Purchased by Klipstein and Kornfeld, Bern, February 25, 1956 (inv.no 36582) [see note 1]; sold to “G. Efron,” September 1956. Molly Stimson Bareiss (1920 –2006) and Walter Bareiss (1919–2007), Greenwich, Conn., by 1967; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1999

Note 1: The bookkeeping records of Klipstein and Kornfeld, Bern, (today, Galerie Kornfeld) indicate the drawing was acquired February 25, 1956 as a so-called “cash-purchase,” whereby art was sold for cash. It was sold to “G. Efron” in September 1956. The name of the seller is not listed in the gallery records. (Email from Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland, to the Gallery, September 12, 2020, copy in accession file)

Exhibited:

Ausstellung Egon Schiele, Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Gutekunst und Klipstein (Klipstein und Kornfeld), Bern, September 8 – October 6, 1956, nr. 17

Samlung Walter Bareiss, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel, 1967


This work appears on our "Artworks with Nazi-Era Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions, 1999," in "The Architecture of the Yale University Art Gallery," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2000), 146
  • Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998), 439, no. D.798–D.799, ill
  • Hans Bolliger, Egon Schiele: Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, exh. cat. (Bern, Switzerland: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1956), 20, no. 17, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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