No.6
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Egon Schiele
(Tulln 1890-1918 Vienna) Boy in green stockings, signed and dated Egon Schiele 1911, pencil, watercolour, and gouache on paper, 47.8 x 31.5 cm, framed, (K)
In January 2008 Jane Kallir inspected the original drawing and confirmed it to be an autograph work by Schiele (oral communication). She is going to include the present work into the forthcoming supplement to her catalogue raisonné.
Certificate: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Vienna 2004.
Provenance: private property, Vienna.
The children’s portraits of 1911, with their skilfully differentiated characterisation, number among Schiele’s most significant works. In terms of painting media, watercolours prevailed over gouaches during that year: in 1911, the expressively meandering brushwork gave way to the uncontrollable flow of the watercolour. For the highlights Schiele diluted the paint with water. However, he still distinctly separates the individual colour fields from each other, following the outlines in pencil. Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Egon Schiele, Albertina, Vienna 2005.
These are the experiences that are particularly meaningful to the Expressionists: coming into being and passing away, longing and desire, sorrow and grief, ecstasy and desperation. However, in Schiele’s art, these grave themes are in now way a compensation for deficient form; neither are they an excuse meant to belie the inner nature of motifs. Letters, diary entries, and last but not least his countless designs for paintings attest to his working with utmost care and strictness towards himself. He conceived his compositions down to the smallest detail and moulded his forms deliberately, without holding fast to shallow formalism. The Expressionist artist Egon Schiele was in no way a follower or beneficiary of a trend, but an original and creative mind. This is underlined by several of his sayings, such as: “The painter can look, but seeing is more” or “The painter is not yet an artist, it is the mind that creates art”. Rudolf Leopold, Egon Schiele, Residenz Verlag, 1972, p. 8.
estimate €380.000,- to €450.000,-
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