Seated Semi-Nude, Hands in Lap, 1911, Pencil on heavy tan wove paper, 56.8X37.5 cm. Signed with initials and dated. Provenance : Neue gallery, Vienna, Serge Sabarsky, New-York, Galleria St. Etienne, New-York, Acquired by present owner in 2010. Literature: J. Kallir, Egon Schiele, The complete works, London, 1998, p. 441, no. 815 (Illustrated). Authenticity: Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Jane Kallir, Galerie St. Etienne. New-York, March 2010. Exhibition: • New-York, La Boetie Gallery, Egon Schiele and his circle, May – June 1971, no. 19 (Illustrated). • Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Egon Schiele, April – June 1979, no. 25 (Illustrated). • Venice, Giardini Di castello, XL, Biennale Di Venezia, Visual Art 82, Summer 1982 no. 32. • Vienna, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Egon Schiele, vom Schüler zum Meister, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle 1906-1918, January – March 1984, no. 52 (illustrated); this exhibition later travels to: Milan, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera; Palermo, Villa Zito; Tel Aviv, Museum of Art; Hamburg, Kusthalle; Salzburg, Rupertinum; Graz, Schloss Plankenwirth; Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum; Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum; and Nürnberger, Kunsthaller. •Rome, Pinoteca Capitolina, Egon Schiele, June-August 1984, no. 94 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to: Venice, Ca’Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte, and Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda. |