Egon Schiele
Self-Portrait with Brown Background1912

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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