Letter from Egon Schiele to Richard Lányi
Leopold Museum, Vienna
ESDA ID
7
Nebehay 1979
Nicht gelistet/Not listed
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 7779
Place
Vienna
Date
30th June 1917 (handwritten)
Material/technique
Black ink on paper
Dimensions
19,2 (15,5) x 14,7 (10,5) cm
Transcription
[Translation:]
30th June
Dear Mr. Lanyi! – You promised me you would buy the painting [1] for yourself and I expect you to keep your promise. – As it is, various complications might arise which could be prevented, – as you know, the painting was claimed before in 1914 and it is not impossible that we might hear from the former buyer even now. – She will get another work at any rate and I will tell her that I sold the painting for a better price, i.e. 1500 K [crowns] – instead of 1200 because I did not know who the buyer was. Please be careful, for your own sake. Send a portfolio [2] to A. Seligmann [3] and to [crossed out: the W] Felix Braun [4] at once. The Wiener-Werkstätte picture postcards etc.
Best regards, EGON
SCHIELE
1917
Has the bilden[den] Künste been published yet? Please send it to me.
[Envelope:]
Mr. Richard Lanyi
Bookstore
Vienna I
Kärntnerstraße 44.
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Egon Schiele, Vienna XIII. Hietzinger-Hauptstraße 101.
30th June
Dear Mr. Lanyi! – You promised me you would buy the painting [1] for yourself and I expect you to keep your promise. – As it is, various complications might arise which could be prevented, – as you know, the painting was claimed before in 1914 and it is not impossible that we might hear from the former buyer even now. – She will get another work at any rate and I will tell her that I sold the painting for a better price, i.e. 1500 K [crowns] – instead of 1200 because I did not know who the buyer was. Please be careful, for your own sake. Send a portfolio [2] to A. Seligmann [3] and to [crossed out: the W] Felix Braun [4] at once. The Wiener-Werkstätte picture postcards etc.
Best regards, EGON
SCHIELE
1917
Has the bilden[den] Künste been published yet? Please send it to me.
[Envelope:]
Mr. Richard Lanyi
Bookstore
Vienna I
Kärntnerstraße 44.
||
Egon Schiele, Vienna XIII. Hietzinger-Hauptstraße 101.
Annotations
[1] Unidentified.
[2] Presumably: Lányi Portfolio, 1917. Published by the Richard Lányi Bookstore, a portfolio containing twelve drawings by Schiele.
[3] Adalbert Franz Seligmann (1862–1945).
[4] Austrian writer (1885–1973).
[2] Presumably: Lányi Portfolio, 1917. Published by the Richard Lányi Bookstore, a portfolio containing twelve drawings by Schiele.
[3] Adalbert Franz Seligmann (1862–1945).
[4] Austrian writer (1885–1973).
Provenance
1988: Privatbesitz, Wien (Ankauf Dorotheum, Wien, 22.11.1988, Aukt. Nr. 36, lot 355, Abb. Tafel 27)
vor 2023: Privatsammlung
2023: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung (Ankauf)
vor 2023: Privatsammlung
2023: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung (Ankauf)
Owner
Recipient
Mentioned person
Mentioned institution
Image credit
Leopold Museum, Vienna
Bibliography
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Lányi/Schiele 1917Zeichnungen. Egon Schiele 1917. Im Verlage der Buchhandlung Richard Lányi Wien, Vienna 1917 [Lányi portfolio]
PURL: https://www.egonschiele.at/7