No.7 

Egon Schiele
(Tulln 1890-1918 Vienna) Houses in Krumau, stamped on the reverse Nachlass Egon Schiele, pencil on paper, 45.6 x 28.2 cm, framed, (K)

Certificate: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Vienna 28 March 2008
This sheet shows a group of houses in Krumau that Egon Schiele drew with a soft pencil in 1916. The work is not signed, but bears the original estate stamp on the reverse. In her catalogue raisonné Jane Kallir reproduces a depiction of the same group of houses under No. 2502. Indicating that the drawing was executed in “coloured crayon”, she believes the signature and dating “1918” to have been added by Schiele. In Kallir’s entry the dimensions are lacking, and as a provenance she states B. F. Dolbin, who is known to have imitated - and thus forged - many works by Schiele on paper. He used to date them “1917” or “1918”, because in the decades following Schiele’s death the works from his late period were more highly valued. I have had the chance of examining numerous of Dolbin’s counterfeits myself. It is also true that during the critical phases, i.e., between mid-1910 and autumn 1918, Schiele never used coloured crayons, which is the technique in which the counterfeit reproduced in Kallir’s book was executed. The sheet offered by the Dorotheum is certainly an autograph work by Egon Schiele, and there can be no doubt that it was executed in 1916.
Provenance: private property, Portugal; private property, Vienna

estimate €28.000,- to €38.000,-

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