Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in graphite): EGON / SCHIELE / 1914
[Kunstverlag Wolfrum, Vienna, until 1921; sold on October 30, 1921, for Kr 7,000, 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. 210 (as "Model Disrobing").
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. Galerie St. Etienne. "Egon Schiele: In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Artist's Birth and the Publication of 'Egon Schiele: The Complete Works'," November 13, 1990–January 12, 1991, no. 49 (as "Model Disrobing").
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Egon Schiele," February 6–April 24, 1994, no. 74 (as "Model Disrobing").
Indianapolis Museum of Art. "Egon Schiele," May 28–August 7, 1994, no. 74.
San Diego Museum of Art. "Egon Schiele," August 27–October 30, 1994, no. 74.
Rome. Complesso del Vittoriano. "Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele: Dall'art nouveau all'espressionismo," October 6, 2001–February 3, 2002, no. 99 (as "Modella che si spoglia").
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. "The Naked Truth: Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka and Other Scandals," January 28–April 24, 2005, unnumbered cat. (p. 237; as "Reclining Semi-nude with Arms Raised").
Vienna. Albertina. "Egon Schiele," December 6, 2005–March 19, 2006, no. 172 (as "Reclining Semi-Nude with Arms Raised").
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. 16.
Jane Kallir. Egon Schiele. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. New York, 1994, pp. 153, 192, no. 74, ill. p. 151 (color).
Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion. Munich, 1995, ill. p. 40 (horizontal), calls it "Reclining Nude".
Jane Kallir. Egon Schiele. The Complete Works Including a Biography and Catalogue Raisonné. Expanded edition (1st ed., 1990). New York, 1998, p. 529, no. D.1551, ill., calls it "Model Disrobing".
Jane Kallir. Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors. Ed. Ivan Vartanian. London, 2003, pp. 275–78, ill. p. 301, calls it "Model Disrobing".
Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Egon Schiele. Ed. Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Exh. cat., Albertina. Vienna, 2005, pp. 308, 408, no. 172, ill. p. 310 (color).
Jane Kallir. Egon Schiele's Women. Munich, 2012, p. 194, fig. 186 (color), calls it "Model Disrobing".
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. 59, 125, no. 16, ill. p. 68 (color).
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