Egon Schiele, Otto Benesch – Egon Schiele als Zeichner – 1950 Portfolio

By SCHIELE Egon (1890-1918)

Otto Benesch — Egon Schiele als Zeichner (Egon Schiele as a Draughtsman)

Druck und Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, 1950 (some copies dated 1951)

Portfolio (Mappe); text by Otto Benesch and facsimile plates after Egon Schiele’s original drawings and watercolours of 1910–1918, titled on the verso in three languages, loose in the original illustrated fibre-paper portfolio. German text.

Signed / numbered: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued

Dimensions: 34.5 × 25 cm (13.6 × 9.8 in.)

Plates: 22 plates present — 14 in colour and 8 in black and white (this copy)

Condition: Incomplete — two plates lacking. Remaining plates in perfect condition; portfolio cover with wear from use (light edge wear/soiling).

Sought-after Vienna portfolio edited by Otto Benesch — son of Schiele’s early patron Heinrich Benesch and director of the Albertina — presenting finely reproduced facsimile plates of Schiele’s drawings and watercolours (self-portraits, a portrait of Arnold Schönberg, female studies, flowers), printed by the Austrian State Printing Office.

Price : 200,00 € ( 227.00 USD )