Two Reclining Nudes

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in graphite): EGON / SCHIELE / 1911

[possibly Würthle & Sohn, Vienna, until ca. 1922; sold ca. 1922 to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (possibly ca. 1922–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1939–82; his bequest to MMA)

New York. Galerie St. Etienne. "Watercolors and Drawings by Austrian Artists from the Dial Collection," May 2–28, 1960, no catalogue.

Cambridge, Mass. Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums. "Jugendstil," April 28–June 13, 1970, no catalogue.

Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial Revisited," June 29–August 22, 1971, no catalogue.

Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 132 (as "Two Nudes").

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. "Drawings: Additions to the Collection," May 23–September 29, 1991, no catalogue.

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Egon Schiele," February 6–April 24, 1994, no. 66 (as "Nude Girls Reclining").

Indianapolis Museum of Art. "Egon Schiele," May 28–August 7, 1994, no. 66.

San Diego Museum of Art. "Egon Schiele," August 27–October 30, 1994, no. 66.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Couples," December 16, 1994–June 4, 1995, no catalogue.

London. Tate Modern. "Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis," February 1–April 29, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 291).

Vienna. Albertina. "Egon Schiele," December 6, 2005–March 19, 2006, no. 98 (as "Two Nude Girls Reclining").

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. 13.

Alice Mundt in The Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, p. 108, calls it "Nude Girls Reclining".

Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion. Munich, 1995, ill. p. 96 (color), calls it "Nude Girls Reclining".

Jane Kallir. Egon Schiele. The Complete Works Including a Biography and Catalogue Raisonné. Expanded edition (1st ed., 1990). New York, 1998, pp. 111, 448, no. D.884, ill. p. 448 and colorpl. 33, calls it "Nude Girls Reclining".

Jane Kallir. Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors. Ed. Ivan Vartanian. London, 2003, pp. 139–41, ill. p. 168 (color), calls it "Nude Girls Reclining".

Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Egon Schiele. Ed. Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Exh. cat., Albertina. Vienna, 2005, pp. 190, 194, 402, no. 98, ill. p. 195 (color).

Jane Kallir. Egon Schiele's Women. Munich, 2012, p. 104, fig. 100 (color), calls it "Nude Girls Reclining".

Sabine Rewald in Obsession: 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. 57, 125, no. 13, ill. p. 65 (color).