Baby in a Blanket (Anton Peschka, Jr.)

Egon Schiele

Tulln 1890 - 1918 Vienna

Baby in a Blanket (Anton Peschka, Jr.)

Pencil on paper

46.2 x 29.5 cm

Signed and dated lower right: EGON / SCHIELE / 1916

Kallir WV no. 1815

Provenienz:

Galerie Welz, Salzburg
Marlborough Fine Art, London (acquired from the above in January 1969)
Private collection, London (acquired from the above in March 1969)
thence by descent to the previous owner

Ausstellungen:

Salzburg, Galerie Welz, ´Meister des 20. Jahrhunderts´, summer 1968, no. 77
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Egon Schiele, ´Drawings and Watercolours: 1907-1918´, February-March 1969, no. VII

Literatur:

Die Aktion, Berlin, circa 1916 (postcard)
Die Aktion, Berlin, 2 September 1916, vol. 6, no. 35/36, p. 487
Publisher of the bookstore Richard Lanyi, Vienna, circa 1917-1920 (postcard)
Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works. Expanded edition, New York 1998, ill. p. 560, no. 1815