Egon Schiele (1890-1918)

Bildnis der Knstlerin Silvia Koller (Portrait of the Artist Silvia Koller)

Details

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
Bildnis der Knstlerin Silvia Koller (Portrait of the Artist Silvia Koller)
signed and dated 'Egon Schiele 31.VII.1918 O.W.' (lower left)
gouache and charcoal on tan paper
18.1/8 x 11 in. (46 x 30 cm.)
Drawn in Oberwaltersdorf on 31 August 1918

Provenance

Broncia Koller (acquired from the artist); sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 26 March 1965, lot 312
Feigen Gallery, New York (acquired by the present owner)

Literature

Apollo, June 1965, vol. LXXXI, no. 40, p. 513 (illustrated).
J. Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1990, p. 609 no. 2224 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Egon Schiele 1890-1918, February-May 1975, p. 54, no. 262 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

Silvia Koller was the daughter of Broncia and Hugo Koller, who in 1918 joined Schiele's growing circle of patrons. Mr. Koller was an industrialist with a scholarly bent, and he features in one of Schiele's great portraits of 1918 (Kallir, no. P320; coll. sterreichische Galerie, Vienna). His wife Broncia, ne Pinell, was a painter, as was their daughter Silvia. Schiele also drew Silvia's brother Rupert (Kallir, no. D2475). Schiele was a frequent visitor to the Kollers' summer home in Oberwaltersdorf; hence the initials "O.W." at lower right in the present work.