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Re-listed due to non-payment.
This is a beautiful
mixed media expressionist painting in watercolor and gouache over black
chalk,
signed EGON SCHIELE 1915. It is executed on high quality vintage hand-made, watermarked paper. (Watermark
J.
WHATMAN HAND MADE) It is
in excellent condition; save a few
handling marks and general
signs of age. It will mount and frame magnificently and will
enhance any environment.
(Please see detailed
images below.)
Comes from a
private collection without paperwork, and in accordance with Ebay rules,
is sold as after Egon Schiele.
A fabulous
piece!
Information found on the Internet:
Egon Schiele was born June 12, 1890, in Tulln, Austria.
After attending school in Krems and Klosterneuburg, he enrolled in the
Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna in 1906. Here he studied painting
and drawing but was frustrated by the school’s conservatism. In 1907, he
met Gustav Klimt, who encouraged him and influenced his work. Schiele left
the Akademie in 1909 and founded the Neukunstgruppe with other
dissatisfied students. Upon Klimt’s invitation, Schiele exhibited at the
1909 Vienna Kunstschau, where he encountered the work of Edvard Munch, Jan
Toroop, Vincent van Gogh, and others. On the occasion of the first
exhibition of the Neukunstgruppe in 1909 at the Piska Salon, Vienna,
Schiele met the art critic and writer Arthur Roessler, who befriended him
and wrote admiringly of his work. In 1910, he began a long friendship with
the collector Heinrich Benesch. By this time, Schiele had developed a
personal expressionist portrait and landscape style and was receiving a
number of portrait commissions from the Viennese intelligentsia.
Seeking isolation, Schiele left Vienna in 1911 to live in
several small villages; he concentrated increasingly on self-portraits and
allegories of life, death, and sex and produced erotic watercolors. In
1912, he was arrested for “immortality” and “seduction”; during his 24-day
imprisonment, he executed a number of poignant watercolors and drawings.
Schiele participated in various group exhibitions, including those of the
Neukunstgruppe in Prague in 1910 and Budapest in 1912; the Sonderbund,
Cologne, in 1912; and several Secession shows in Munich, beginning in
1911. In 1913, the Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich, mounted Schiele’s first
solo show. A solo exhibition of his work took place in Paris in 1914. The
following year, Schiele married Edith Harms and was drafted into the
Austrian army. He painted prolifically and continued to exhibit during his
military service. His solo show at the Vienna Secession of 1918 brought
him critical acclaim and financial success. He died several months later
in Vienna, at age 28, on October 31, 1918, a victim of influenza, which
had claimed his wife three days earlier.
The drawing is quite large
and measures: 19" x 13 1/2"
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