Egon Schiele
Drying Laundry1908

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Egon Schiele
Austria, also active Czech Republic, 1890-1918
Title: Drying Laundry
Date Made: 1908
Medium: Oil on cardboard
Dimensions: Frame: 12 1/2 × 12 3/8 × 1 7/8 in. (31.75 × 31.43 × 4.76 cm) Sight: 6 5/8 × 6 1/2 in. (16.83 × 16.51 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Kallir Family
Accession Number: M.2026.2.25
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: The artist (1890–1918). The Estate of Alfred Spitzer (1861–1923), Vienna as of 1923; By descent to his daughter Edith Spitzer Neumann (1902–2002), Vienna and New York [1]; [Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1966]; transferred to the Kallir Family Foundation, New York, 2024; given in 2026 to LACMA.

[1]: Spitzer was forced to emigrate from Vienna in 1938 and lived in New York from 1940 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: Drying Laundry
Date Made: 1908
Medium: Oil on cardboard
Dimensions: Frame: 12 1/2 × 12 3/8 × 1 7/8 in. (31.75 × 31.43 × 4.76 cm) Sight: 6 5/8 × 6 1/2 in. (16.83 × 16.51 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Kallir Family
Accession Number: M.2026.2.25
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Provenance: The artist (1890–1918). The Estate of Alfred Spitzer (1861–1923), Vienna as of 1923; By descent to his daughter Edith Spitzer Neumann (1902–2002), Vienna and New York [1]; [Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1966]; transferred to the Kallir Family Foundation, New York, 2024; given in 2026 to LACMA.

[1]: Spitzer was forced to emigrate from Vienna in 1938 and lived in New York from 1940 on.
Copyright: photo courtesy Kallir Research Institute, New York.