Kümmernis (Sorrow)

Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918)

1914

Medium/TechniqueDrypoint

DimensionsPlatemark (outer edge of bevel): 47.7 x 31.7 cm (18 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 52.1 × 36.2 cm (20 1/2 × 14 1/4 in.)

Credit LineKatherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard, Virginia Herrick Deknatel Purchase Fund, and funds donated by Susan Bennett, Florence Gerstein, Claire W. and Richard P. Morse, and Stanley and Mary Ann Snider

Accession number2002.902

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InscriptionsIn graphite pencil, b.c.: Egon Schiele 1914 [boxed monogram]; other notes in graphite pencil, l.r. [in hand of Heinrich Stinnes]: 1919: 200 Drücke in Avalun-verlag, Platte verkleinert 465 x 315, N.K./S. cj. 15 [?], Randnummer maßform DL 477 x 317; in graphite pencil, verso, l.r.: 38183

ProvenanceHeinrich Stinnes (d. 1932), Cologne; June 20-22, 1938, posthumous Stinnes sale, Klipstein und Kornfeld, Bern, lot 1052. June 15-17, 1972, anonymous sale, Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, lot 1126, sold for 28,000 Sw. Fr. L'Art Ancien. Private collection. June 22, 2001, anonymous sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, lot 133, to August Laube, Zurich; 2002, sold by August Laube to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 18, 2002)