Kneeling Female Nude Artist: Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918)

Medium

Graphite (recto and verso)

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

1999.9.16a-b

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Period

20th century

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Provenance

Provenance


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

Notes: [1] The bookkeeping records of Klipstein and Kornfeld, Bern, (today, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern) indicate the drawing was acquired February 25, 1956 as a so-called “cash-purchase,” whereby art was sold for cash. The name of the seller is not listed in the gallery’s records.

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


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Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions, 1999," 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.
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