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Egon Schiele was an Austrian Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1890. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Albertina Museum have featured Egon Schiele's work in the past.Egon Schiele's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 6 USD to 39,821,349 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 39,821,349 USD for HÄUSER MIT BUNTER WÄSCHE (VORSTADT II)HOUSES WITH LAUNDRY (SUBURB II), sold at Sotheby's London in 2011. In the past 12 months, his works on paper have averaged 264,577 USD, while his paintings have sold for an average of 50,848 USD.Egon Schiele has been featured in articles for Ocula, FAD Magazine and Korea Herald. The most recent article is Seminal Egon Schiele Offered in the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale written for ArtDaily in February 2025. The artist died in 1918.
Christie’s, which values the work at more than $1 million, said the proceeds from any sale would be shared with the heirs of an art collector killed in a concentration camp.
Christie’s will present Egon Schiele’s Knabe in Matrosenanzug (Boy in a Sailor Suit) (estimate: £1,000,000 – 1,500,000), as a highlight of the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2025.
In the exhibition, the audience will encounter about a hundred works by Swedish and international artists with drawing as the lowest common denominator.
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..Schiele’s graphic works assume a particularly prominent place in his oeuvre: in his precisely calculated drawings, the artist broke new ground in terms of iconography and colour...
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Neue Galerie New York, Museum for German and Austrian Art
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..Schiele’s self-portraits, for example, must be seen as attempts to comprehend the self as variable, an aspect which the artist also considered in several poems, and which coincides with contemporary ideas...
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..Thus, the presentation shines the spotlight not only on a collector‘s life, on cultural networks and art historical controversies, but also on the success story that was Egon Schiele‘s rediscovery after...
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