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Egon Schiele
Self-Portrait with Brown Background1912

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
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
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.