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Egon Schiele
Self-Portrait with Brown Background1912

On view: BCAM 3rd FloorDanse Macabre: Death in Print from Dürer to Dix
Watercolor and pencil portrait drawing of a young man facing forward, with loose gestural brushwork, patchy warm skin tones, and a dark brown painted background on cream paper

Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Brown Background, 1912, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Kallir Family, photo courtesy Kallir Research Institute, New York

Artist or Maker
Egon Schiele
Austria, also active Czech Republic, 1890-1918
Title
Self-Portrait with Brown Background
Date Made
1912
Medium
Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper
Dimensions
Mat: 18 3/4 × 15 1/2 in. (47.63 × 39.37 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 7/8 in. (31.43 × 25.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Kallir Family
Accession Number
M.2025.10.8
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance

The artist (1890–1918). Rudolf Leopold (1925 –2010), Vienna; Otto Kallir (1894–1978), Vienna and New York [1], 1958; by descent to his son John Kallir (1923–2022), New York; given to the Kallir Family Foundation, 2005; given in 2025 to LACMA.

[1]: Kallir was forced to emigrate from Vienna in 1938 and lived in New York from 1939 on.

Copyright
photo courtesy Kallir Research Institute, New York