Egon Schiele

Friederike Maria Beer-Monti, Vienna & United States (acquired directly from the artist)
Joseph Hahn, United States (acquired from the above circa 1970)
Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the estate of the above in 2011 and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 24, 2014, lot 128)
Acquired at the above sale by A. Alfred Taubman

Tull, Austria, Egon Schiele Museum & Ravensburg, Germany, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Egon Schiele. Der Anfang, 2013-14, n.n.

Christian M. Nebehay, Egon Schiele, 1890-1918: Leben, Briefe, Gedichte, Vienna & Salzburg, 1979, no. 152
Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1990, no. 1604, illustrated p. 534
Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1998, no. 1604, illustrated p. 534

Executed on cream colored wove paper. T-hinged to a mount at two places at the upper edge of the verso of the sheet. The left and right edges have been unevenly cut. The sheet is slightly time stained with a faint mat stain as well as a couple of minor surface stains in the upper left quadrant and one small spot in the upper right quadrant. There are remnants of adhesive from a previous mounting visible on the verso with small corresponding staining at the extreme bottom left and right corners of the recto. There is a 4cm repaired tear running vertically at the bottom left edge of the sheet, as well as a small 1cm nick to the right of this tear. There are some very faint flattened creases throughout. The sheet is time stained although the line remains strong. This work is in fair condition.
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Viennese society member Friederike Maria Beer was the subject of multiple commissioned portraits during the mid-1910s, including Klimt's Bildnes der Friederike Maria Beer of 1916. She typically modeled wearing her finest clothing from the Viennese design studio Wiener Werkstätte, where she was a regular customer at the time.