Händ, Studienblatt zum Portrait Dr. Hugo Koller

Details

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
Händ, Studienblatt zum Portrait Dr. Hugo Koller
stamped with the collector's mark of Viktor Fogarassy on the reverse
black chalk on paper
18 x 11¾in. (45.7 x 29.8cm.)

Provenance

Viktor Fogarassy, Graz
Galerie Würthle, Vienna

Literature

J. Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1990, no. 2474 (illustrated, p. 637)

Exhibited

Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Die Klassiker der österreichischen modernen kunst von Klimt bis Wotruba, Nov., 1957, no. 100
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Jan., 1958, no. 146
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, Feb.-April, 1965, no. 61 (addendum)
Vienna, Galerie Würthle, Egon Schiele, May-June, 1977, no. 32 (illustrated)

Lot Essay

This drawing is related to the oil painting Bildnis Dr. Hugo Koller, 1918 (Kallir, no. 320; coll. Österreichische Galerie, Vienna), in which the sitter is holding an open book. Koller was an industrialist with a scholarly bent; in the portrait Schiele depicts him in his library surrounded by books. Koller was married to the painter Broncia Pinell, and Schiele was a frequent guest at their home in the summer of 1918.