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Postcard from Emmy Obransky to Egon Schiele, 15th Oct. 1918

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Leopold Museum,
Vienna
recto: Print on cardboard, verso: Ink on cardboard
14×9.2 cm

Artists

  • Emmy Obransky
  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Translation of the Transcription:

Blue clouds in long strips
On a yellow background
It is the hour of dusk
The night comes prowling,
Again a day
Without you has fled – and –
Left something in my heart – the wound!
Greatly looking forward to seeing you
again soon! Yours, Emmy Obransky

15th Oct. [19]18

E. Obransky II. Vorgartenstr.[aße] 88./9

[Address block:]
To the
Greatly Revered
Mr. Egon Schiele
Acad. [academic] painter
Vienna, XIII.
Wattmanngasse No. 6.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Sender: Emmy Obransky
  • Recipient: Egon Schiele
Title
Postcard from Emmy Obransky to Egon Schiele
Date
15th Oct. 1918
Category
Autograph
Material​/technique
recto: Print on cardboard, verso: Ink on cardboard
Dimensions
14×9.2 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 7957
Inventory access
Accession 2023
Catalogue raisonne
  • ESDA ID 2946
Keywords
autographpostcardpostcard, picture-postcardEgon Schielestring instrumentsitting figurekneeling figure (fem.)cloudspaperwriting/lettersEmmy Obransky
Egon Schiele
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Provenance

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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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autographpostcardpostcard, picture-postcardEgon Schielestring instrumentsitting figurekneeling figure (fem.)cloudspaperwriting/lettersEmmy Obransky