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Letter from Egon Schiele to Richard Lányi incl. Original Order Form for the Lányi Portfolio, Jun. 1917

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Ink on paper
20.2×17.3 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

  • Richard Lányi

    (Vienna 1884–1942 Auschwitz)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

The letter belongs to the order form for the Lányi portfolio.

Transcription:

Monday.

Dear Mr. [Richard] Lanyi! – 400 have been numbered and 23 have been marked with a TRIAL number – this means that 12 covers are missing, – please send them to me as soon as possible so I can sign them and also, if possible, my 5 copies. – Please remember to also send a copy each to the Kiepenheuer publishing house, Weimar, to Franz Blei, Dr. Hans Tietze [Vienna] XIX, Armbrustergasse 20, Max Eisler, [Hans] Goltz, [Galerie Ernst] Arnold, [Paul] Cassirer etc.

Kind regards
EGON
SCHIELE
1917

To Mr.
Lanyi

Object data

Artist/author
  • Sender: Egon Schiele
  • Recipient: Richard Lányi
Title
Letter from Egon Schiele to Richard Lányi incl. Original Order Form for the Lányi Portfolio
Date
Jun. 1917
Category
Autograph
Material​/technique
Ink on paper
Dimensions
20.2×17.3 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 7795 01
Inventory access
Accession 2023
Catalogue raisonne
  • ESDA ID 29
Keywords
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Egon Schiele
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Auktion: 22.11.1988, Dorotheum Wien, Auktion Nr. 36, Los Nr. 354, Abb. Taf. 22; (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1988-2010);
Privatsammlung Leopold, Wien (2010-2023); (2)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (2023)

  1. Egon Schiele Datenbank der Autografen (ESDA), ID: 29
  2. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Rechnung Nr. 01-2023 vom 18.04.2023

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