Medium:Charcoal on paper (recto) ; Graphite on paper (verso)
Dimensions:19 in. × 12 3/8 in. (48.3 × 31.4 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Object Number:1984.433.304a, b
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left, in charcoal): EGON / SCHIELE / 1915 ; Signed and dated (verso, right center, in graphite) : EGON / SCHIELE / 1912 [upside down]
[Adolf Neufeld, Vienna, until 1921; sold on November 27, 1921, for Kr 10,000, to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (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. 208.
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 Revisited," June 29–August 22, 1971, no catalogue.
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 [The Met Breuer]. "Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection," July 3–October 7, 2018, no. 21.
Jane Kallir. Egon Schiele. The Complete Works Including a Biography and Catalogue Raisonné. Expanded edition (1st ed., 1990). New York, 1998, p. 464, no. 1009, ill. (verso); p. 552, no. D.1746, ill. (recto), calls the verso drawing "Seated Model with Raised Arms".
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. 60, 126, no. 21, ill. p. 72 (color).
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