Mödling I (Gray City)

According to the work list Kallir: KP No: 299; title: Mödling I (Gray City)-Mödling I (Graue Stadt); Nirenstein 152 Kallir 215 Leopold 269; Signed and dated, lower right. 43 X x 55 li" (110.1 x 140.1 cm). Destroyed during World War II. Kallir Provenance: Acquired from the artist; August & Serena Lederer; Exhibitions: Munieh, 1917, no. 6; Secession, Vicnna, March, 1918, no. 12, ill.; Vienna, 1920, no. 78; Galerie Würthle, Vienna, 1925, no. 31, ill.; The Hague, 1927, no. 27; Hagenbund/Neue Galerie, Vienna, 1928, no. 63; Paris, 1937, no. 490; Bern, 1937, no. 41; Literature: Kurt Gerstenberg, "Die Künstler und diese Zeit", Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (Nov. 1917), p. 114; Lanyi postcard, c. 1917-20; Roessler, 1918, after p. 60; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, 1919, p. 229; Karpfen, 1921, pI. 25; Österreichische Bau- und Werkkunst, 1925, p. 13; Roessler, ERinnerungen (1948 edition only), after p. 81; Das Kunstwerk, 1951, p. 27; Malafarina, 1982, no. 296; Nebehay, 1989, fig. 138; Comments: Schiele finished this painting on March 20, 1916 (Nebehay. 1979, #895). It was acquired by the Lederers shortly thereafter, but offcred (unsuccessfully) for resale through Guido Arnot at 2,000 kronen in November (ibid.,#1142). Schiele returned to the subject, a small city near Vienna, at least on in 1918. See: P. 333, 334