Egon Schiele: An Artist's Midnight Soul...

[MissMagAddict]

Schiele Sale @ Sotheby's November 7, 2006

Egon Schiele
Nude Girl, Scantily Dressed in a Blue blouse, Kneeling on a Cloth
$1,024,000 (with premium)
Sotheby’s New York
Nov. 7, 2006

Lot 39 was Egon Schiele’s Nude Girl, Scantily Dressed in a Blue Blouse, Kneeling on a Cloth (1913), 13 x 19 in., estimated at $1,000,000-$1,500,000, a brilliant, minimalist version of what is to come tonight 11/8 at Christie’s (though at six times the anticipated cost). Christie’s is offering two, more finished Schiele watercolors with estimates of $5,000,000-$7,000,000 and $6,000,000-$8,000,000. The Sotheby’s Schiele sold in seconds to one bidder for $900,000. Amazing.

 

[kanita]

Thank you MissMagAddict for all the wonderful information you have posted You're the best

 

[MissMagAddict]

Christies Auction Update from last night

Lot 58, Egon Schiele’s Zwei Madchen auf einer Fransendecke (1911), 22 x 14 in., estimated $5,000,000-$7,000,000, was being sold by the Neue Galerie, which is clearly in a trading mood. The picture was not as wonderful as the estimate would lead one to expect. Two knowing children wrapped in winter coats and draped artfully over each other. Sold for $5,000,000

Lot 59, Schiele’s Kniender Halbakt nach links gebugt (1917), 11 x 18 in., estimated at $6,000,000-$8,000,000, another Neue Galerie work. This was the slinky nude stripped to the waist and looking delightfully vulnerable. Sold for $10,000,000, a record, for vulnerability. The buyer was Doris Ammann, sitting right in front, her trademark scarf a bright orange-red.

Lot 60, Schiele’s Einzelne Hauser (1915), 43 x 55 in., estimated at $20,000,000-$30,000,000 and the third of the Neue Galerie deaccessions. As a rule, Schiele paintings appear infrequently and do so only at fantastic values. Christie’s did not inordinately manipulate its estimate. Four months ago Schiele’s Herbstonne sold at Christie’s London for $21,800,000 over an estimate of $7,000,000-$11,000,000. Before that, Sotheby’s London sold Krumauer Landschaft in June 2003 for $21,000,000 over an estimate of $8,000,000-$11,000,000. Einzelne Hauser is a great picture. It sold for $20,000,000.

 

[MUXU]

woahhh
glad his work did so well...the last two exceed the estimated!!

i really like the 'Zwei Madchen auf einer Fransendecke' piece

 

[MissMagAddict]

The magisterial painting Einzelne Häuser (Häuser mit Bergen) realized $22,416,000
and set a new world auction record for the artist.

christies

 

[MUXU]

my friend from china got an amazing schiele picture book of his studies(i rarely seen his quick studies)
i took pictures of a few pages..the rest of the book is very inspirational...many studies of women, girls, couples, himself and generals he drew while at war
sorry these arent the best quality..but i dont have a scanner
i want to fly back to china to buy this book since my friend wont sell this one to me

enjoy

 

[ponytrot]

he is so amazing- his talent made all the more poignant because of this sense of a tortured and maligned artist, someone who had visions no one else could see which came to be apprieciated so long after his death.

 

[kanita]

WOW! MUXU Thanks so much for those pictures! I'm certainly enjoying them

 

[Whitelinen]

Beautiful, thank you for posting

 

[MUXU]

you're welcome
i ll post some more later! there are just too many!

 

[MissMagAddict]

Vogue Italia July 1996
Inspirata a Egon Schiele
Photographed by Paolo Roversi




scanned by MMA

 

[Whitelinen]

Hmm... I think they should've added more colour in order to make it look more Schiele, and make it look more simple, more illustrated.

 

[educo]

Somewhere i read that he contracted syphillis and he was always struggling with his sexual addiction after that, that's why many of his self portraits have him looking as if he castrated himself. I'm not calling him a pervert or whatever, but in modern days he would have a sexual addiction problem.

 

[demimondaine]

i'd love to fire this thread back up..

 

[purplemachine]

as would i... i could produce art half as beautiful and tragic as schiele's, and i'd be eternally content.