Schiele cityscape set for auction
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May 6, 2011, Friday
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A CITYSCAPE by Austrian artist Egon Schiele is expected to fetch a record price of up to 30 million pounds (US$50 million) when it goes under the hammer for the first time next month, Sotheby's said yesterday.
The vibrant "Hauser mit bunter Wasche 'Vorstadt' II" - translated as "Houses with colorful Laundry, 'Suburb' II" - is being sold by Vienna's Leopold Museum and is a rare opportunity for a private collector to bid for a Schiele cityscape.
"The painting is unquestionably one of the greatest Schiele oils ever to come to the market," said Helena Newman, chairperson of Impressionist and Modern art at auction house Sotheby's.
The oil on canvas painting is loosely based on motifs from the southern Bohemian town of Krumau where Schiele's mother was born, and where he moved with his lover Walburga Neuzil in 1911 to escape imperial Vienna.
Jumbled houses and strings of colorful laundry dominate the view, painted from an elevated perspective typical of the artist's more accomplished cityscapes. It was painted in 1914 at the height of Schiele's short and controversial career, just four years before his death in the Spanish influenza epidemic at age 28.
The Schiele painting will be auctioned as part of the summer impressionist and modern art sale at Sotheby's in London on June 22.
The vibrant "Hauser mit bunter Wasche 'Vorstadt' II" - translated as "Houses with colorful Laundry, 'Suburb' II" - is being sold by Vienna's Leopold Museum and is a rare opportunity for a private collector to bid for a Schiele cityscape.
"The painting is unquestionably one of the greatest Schiele oils ever to come to the market," said Helena Newman, chairperson of Impressionist and Modern art at auction house Sotheby's.
The oil on canvas painting is loosely based on motifs from the southern Bohemian town of Krumau where Schiele's mother was born, and where he moved with his lover Walburga Neuzil in 1911 to escape imperial Vienna.
Jumbled houses and strings of colorful laundry dominate the view, painted from an elevated perspective typical of the artist's more accomplished cityscapes. It was painted in 1914 at the height of Schiele's short and controversial career, just four years before his death in the Spanish influenza epidemic at age 28.
The Schiele painting will be auctioned as part of the summer impressionist and modern art sale at Sotheby's in London on June 22.
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