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Sheet with Figure Study, undated

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Pencil on Paper
4.6×4.1 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
A small paper fragment shows a figure, hinted at with only a few lines and outlined by a square, with both arms stretched out sideways. There are other extant sketches, undated and swiftly drawn, of figures with outstretched arms, some of them dressed, cf. Fragment of a Page from a Sketchbook with Figure Study and Sheet with Figure Study, which, unlike Sheet with Crucifixion Scene, do not necessarily have Christian connotations. We know from a historical photograph that the works Figure Study to Figure Study used to be all together on a (loose) sheet from a sketchbook – along with further depictions – which was later cut up. We do not know for certain which work the sketches might have been connected to; Jane Kallir suspects a connection with the now lost painting Conversion, of which only fragments remain.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Egon Schiele
Title
Sheet with Figure Study
Date
undated
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Pencil on Paper
Dimensions
4.6×4.1 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 7773
Inventory access
Accession 2023
Keywords

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Privatsammlung Leopold, Wien; (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (2023)

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Rechnung Nr. 01-2023 vom 18.04.2023

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