Standing Nude with a Patterned Robe

1917

Egon Schiele

Associated Names
Egon Schiele

Artist, Austrian, 1890 - 1918

This painting shows a woman standing, facing left, her face turned away from us. She is nude, with pale skin the same color as the paper beneath, highlighted with areas of rosy pink and bright teal. She has auburn hair styled in a bun at the back of her head. The woman holds a colorful fabric with her right arm, patterned with areas of red, yellow, purple, white, and green.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Bosco, Vienna (acquired from the artist); Mary A. [1898-1979] and John H. Eichberg [1894-1978], Vienna and Cincinnati, OH, 1921; by descent to Madeleine Eichberg [b. 1924], Cincinnati, OH; (her sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 27 April 1972, no. 95). Alice M. Kaplan [1903-1995], New York (Lugt 3061). Mrs. Mary M. Looker; The Looker Family Residual Trust, Manhattan Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Nudes: Egon Schiele. Gagosian Gallery, New York, 1994, pl. 28 (text by Alessandra Comini).

2018

  • Egon Schiele. Foundation Louis Vuitton Pour la Creation, Paris, 2018-2019.

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1976

  • Comini, Alessandra. Egon Schiele. New York, 1976, no. 65 (reprod.).

1981

  • Bantel, Linda. The Alice M. Kaplan Collection. New York, 1981, 144-145, no. 65 (color).

1990

  • Kallir, Jane. Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, Including a Biography and Catalogue Raisonne. New York, 1990, 578, no. D.1968 (reprod.).

2016

  • Brodie, Judith. "Egon Schiele, Standing Nude with a Patterned Robe." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, no. 55 (Fall, 2016): 28-29 (color).

  • Brodie, Judith. "Gifts and Acquisitions: Egon Schiele, Standing Nude with a Patterned Robe". National Gallery of Art Bulletin 55 (Fall 2016): 28-229, repro. 28.

Inscriptions

lower center in black crayon: Egon / Schiele / 1917 [inside square: see Kallir 1990, fig. B-44].

Wikidata ID

Q64557994

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