Egon Schiele (after), Bildnisstudie / Portrait of Edith (Frau E. Sch.), 1918

By SCHIELE Egon (1890-1918)

EGON SCHIELE (1890–1918) (after)

Bildnisstudie / Portrait of Edith (Frau E. Sch.), 1918

Medium: Colour collotype on matt wove paper. Plate from the portfolio Egon Schiele — Handzeichnungen, Verlag Eduard Strache, Vienna–Prague–Leipzig, 1920, printed by Max Jaffé, Vienna. One of only four colour plates in the portfolio.

Signed & numbered: Signed and dated in the plate, lower right: “EGON SCHIELE 1918”. Edition B, No. 316 / 500 (total edition of 510).

Dimensions:

Sheet (visible): 41 × 26 cm (16.1 × 10.2 in.)

Frame : 60 × 40 cm (23.6 × 15.7 in.)

Condition: Good condition. Minor stains, soft handling creases, one restored tear to the upper-left corner — no impact on the image. Framed.

Description: Plate from the posthumous portfolio published by Eduard Strache in 1920, two years after the artist’s death — a suite of fifteen collotypes (four in colour) reproducing Schiele’s drawings of 1910–1918, executed by the renowned Viennese collotype workshop of Max Jaffé. This colour plate reproduces a portrait study of the artist’s wife, Edith Schiele (“Frau E. Sch.”), after a work of 1918, the final year of the artist’s life. The sheet is tipped onto its original charcoal-grey support card, as issued.

Originality: Original collotype from the first and only edition (Strache, 1920) — not a later reprint or reproduction.

A copy of the edition justification (justificatif de tirage) will be provided. Literature: Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, 1990, no. 2229.

Price : 2800,00 € ( 3192.00 USD )