Egon Schiele
“Prozession”
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) will be the key name in Christie’s auction
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) will be the key name in Christie’s auction of Impressionist and modern Art in London on February 6 th 2007, a sale that expects to sell paintings for a total worth in excess of £75 million.
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As the Christie’s press note about this sale explains, “leading the German & Austrian section is Egon Schiele’s (1890-1918) Prozession, 1911 (estimate: £5,000,000-7,000,000). This painting is one of a great series of quasi-religious paintings that Schiele produced at the height of a period of mystical revelation between 1910 and early 1912. Common to all of them is the oppressive autumnal atmosphere of death and decay that shocked many of Schiele’s contemporaries and saw him considered the enfant terrible of his generation. Schiele’s self portrait, Selbstbildnis mit gespreizten Fingern (estimate: £4,000,000-6,000,000) was painted in 1909, the year of Schiele’s great breakthrough to artistic maturity. Although only nineteen years old Schiele’s prodigious talent had already asserted itself to the point where he had become recognised by Gustav Klimt and many others as one of the greatest hopes for the future of Austrian art”
Other important works to be offered in this sale are Renoir’s “La leçon (Bielle, l’institutrice et Claude Renoir lisant” (estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000), Fernand Léger’s “Les maisons dans les arbres” , 1914 (estimate £2,800,000-3,500,000) and important works by Modigliani and Picasso
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