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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 2, 2022 | Sotheby's | London | Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction | 145 | $****** - ****** | Kreuzigung mit verfinsterter Sonne (Crucifixion with Darkened Sun) |
paintings
41 x 41 cm (16.14 x 16.14 in)
oil on canvas
signed SCHIELE EGON and dated 07 (centre left); stamped twice with the estate stamp on the reverse
Estate of the artist
Dr Heinrich Rieger, Vienna (acquired by 1918)
Edith Kainz, Vienna (acquired by 1966)
Sale: Christie's, London, 29th November 1982, lot 39
Jenö Eisenberger, Vienna
Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the above by 1990)
By descent from the above to the present owner
This work is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement with the heirs of Heinrich Rieger.
Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, Oberes Belvedere, Egon Schiele. Ausstellung zur 50. Wiederkehr seines Todestages , 1968, no. 6, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Kreuzigung )
Otto Nirenstein, Egon Schiele. Persönlichkeit und Werk , Vienna, 1930, no. 4, illustrated pl. 3 (titled Kreuzigung )
Otto Kallir, Egon Schiele. Œuvre-Katalog der Gemälde , Vienna, 1966, no. 24, illustrated p. 129 (titled Kreuzigung )
Werner Hofmann, Egon Schiele. Die Familie , Stuttgart, 1968, mentioned p. 18 (titled Kreuzigung )
Johannes Dobai, 'Egon Schieles Jüngling vor Gottvater kniend', in Jahresbericht 1968/69, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft. Beiträge zur Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts , Zurich, 1970, illustrated p. 56 (titled Kreuzigung and catalogued as oil on canvas)
Rudolf Leopold, Egon Schiele. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen , Salzburg, 1972, no. 57, illustrated p. 528
Christian M. Nebehay, Egon Schiele. Leben, Briefe, Gedichte , Salzburg & Vienna, 1979, listed p. 69
Gianfranco Malafarina, L'Opera di Schiele , Milan, 1982, no. 49, illustrated p. 82 (titled Calvario con eclisse di sole )
Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works , London, 1998, no. 30, illustrated p. 270
Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war. Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens , Vienna, 2003, listed p. 978
Rudolf Leopold, Egon Schiele. Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings , Munich, 2020, no. 57, illustrated in colour p. 539
Reinhard Steiner, Egon Schiele. 1890 - 1918. The Midnight Soul of the Artist , Cologne, 2020, illustrated in colour p. 75
Property from a Private Collection, Europe
Egon Schiele
1890 - 1918
Kreuzigung mit verfinsterter Sonne (Crucifixion with Darkened Sun)
signed SCHIELE EGON and dated 07 (centre left); stamped twice with the estate stamp on the reverse
oil on canvas laid down on board
41 by 41cm.; 16⅛ by 16⅛in.
Painted in 1907.
