Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in charcoal): EGON / SCHIELE / 1918
[art market, Vienna, until ca. 1921; sold ca. 1921 to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (ca. 1921–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1939–82; his bequest to MMA)
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 215 (as "Seated Nude Girl Clasping Her Knee").
New York. Galerie St. Etienne. "Watercolors and Drawings by Austrian Artists from the Dial Collection," May 2–28, 1960, no catalogue.
Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 129 (as "Seated Nude Clasping Her Knee").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Egon Schiele," April 27–June 4, 1989, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Egon Schiele," March 27–July 29, 1990, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Nudes: A Selection from the Bequest of Scofield Thayer," February 12–October 31, 1993, no catalogue.
New York. Gagosian Gallery. "Egon Schiele: Nudes," March 10–April 16, 1994, unnumbered cat. (pl. 36).
Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "Schiele," February 3–May 14, 1995, no. 127.
New York. Galerie St. Etienne. "Egon Schiele (1890–1918): Master Draughtsman," November 18, 1997–January 3, 1998, no. 61 (as "Seated Nude Girl Clasping Her Knee").
Vienna. Belvedere. "The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka," October 22, 2015–February 28, 2016, no. 65 (as "Seated Nude Girl Clasping Her Knee").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met Breuer]. "Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection," July 3–October 7, 2018, no. 28.
Nicholas Joost. Scofield Thayer and The Dial: An Illustrated History. Carbondale, Ill., 1964, ill. between pp. 268 and 269, calls it "Seated Nude Girl Clasping Her Knee".
Nicholas Joost. "The Dial Collection: Tastes and Trends of the 'Twenties." Apollo 94 (December 1971), p. 488, calls it "Seated Nude Girl".
Ann Keck-Henderson. "A View from the Twenties: Modernism and the Dial Collection." Worcester Art Museum Journal 4 (1980–81), p. 34, fig. 6, calls it "Seated Nude Clasping Her Knee".
Dore Ashton, ed. Twentieth-Century Artists on Art. New York, 1985, ill. p. 19, calls it "Seated Girl with Clasped Hands".
Jane Kallir. Egon Schiele. The Complete Works Including a Biography and Catalogue Raisonné. Expanded edition (1st ed., 1990). New York, 1998, pp. 230, 607, no. D.2205, ill. p. 607 and fig. 99, calls it "Seated Nude Girl Clasping Her Knee".
Jane Kallir. Egon Schiele's Women. Munich, 2012, p. 232, fig. 229.
Jane Kallir inThe Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka. Ed. Agnes Husslein-Arco, Jane Kallir, and Alfred Weidinger. Exh. cat., Belvedere, Vienna. Munich, 2015, p. 107, no. 65, ill. p. 124.
Sabine Rewald inObsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met Breuer]. New York, 2018, pp. 61, 126, no. 28, ill. p. 78 (color).
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