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Two Squatting Women, 1918 (unfinished)

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
recto: Oil, opaque color on canvas, verso: Oil on canvas
110×140.5 cm

Artists

  • Egon Schiele

    (Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)

Currently on display at OG3

Object data

Artist/author
  • Egon Schiele
Title
Two Squatting Women
Alternative title
Verso: Monk II (Fragment), 1913 (no longer visible due to additional canvas)
Date
1918 (unfinished)
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
recto: Oil, opaque color on canvas, verso: Oil on canvas
Dimensions
110×140.5 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 464
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Rudolf Leopold: Egon Schiele. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, hrsg. von Elisabeth Leopold, München 2020.
  • Tobias Natter: Egon Schiele, Sämtliche Gemälde 1909-1918, Köln 2017.
  • Trotzdem Kunst! Österreich 1914-1918, hrsg. von Elisabeth Leopold/Ivan Ristić u.a., Wien 2014 (Ausst-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 09.05.2014-15.09.2014).
  • Jane Kallir: Egon Schiele - The complete works. Expanded edition including a biography and a catalogue raisonné, New York 1998.
  • Otto Kallir: Egon Schiele. Oeuvre Catalogue of the Paintings, New York 1966.
  • Otto Nirenstein: Egon Schiele. Persönlichkeit und Werk, Berlin 1930.
Catalogue raisonne
  • J. Kallir 1990/1998: P327
  • Leopold 1972/2020: 296
  • Natter 2017: 213
  • O. Kallir 1966: 241
  • O. Kallir (Nirenstein) 1930: 171
  • Verso: J. Kallir 1990/1998: P258
Keywords
woman/girlnudesquatting/crouching figure (fem.)monk/nun

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Egon Schiele, Wien (1919);
Arthur Stemmer, Wien / London (1919-1954); (1)
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Wien (1954-1957); (2)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1957-1994); (3)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Otto Nirenstein, Egon Schiele. Persönlichkeit und Werk, Berlin 1930, S. 103, Nr. 171 (Tafel 131)
  2. Sonja Niederacher, Egon Schiele. Hockendes Frauenpaar, Dossier vom 30.06.2010, S. 5-7
  3. Otto Kallir, Egon Schiele, Oeuvre Catalogue of the Paintings, New York 1966, S. 480, Nr. 241; Niederacher, Dossier, S. 7.

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woman/girlnudesquatting/crouching figure (fem.)monk/nun