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Kummernis (Sorrow)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Kummernis (Sorrow) Drypoint printed in dark green, 1914, on stiff wove paper, from the total unsigned posthumous edition of 200 after the steel-facing of the plate circa 1919, (including 50 on Japan paper, 50 on French Bütten paper and 100 on Massimilianico Bütten paper), published 1922 Plate: 48.2 x 32 cm Provenance: P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1979 Literature: Kallir 7b Only a few life-time proofs were printed. Otto Nirenstein (Kallir) then acquired the artists prints for publication by the Verlag Neuer Graphik, the fine arts imprint of the Rikola Verlag in Vienna and issued them in the set Das Graphische Werk von Egon Schiele (The graphic work of Egon Schiele).

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