Description: Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Handzeichnungen, eight collotypes Wien, Prag, Leipzig five unframed on charcoal-gray paper, three framed with original portfolio, brown boards with artist's name stamped on upper cover. The Handzeichnungen was published two years after the artist's death. "The inclusion of multicolor collotypes increased difficulty of production, but indicated a desire to fully capture the beauty of Schiele's watercolor and gouache paintings. Monochrome prints of nude models express a greater concern for compositional experimentation than for erotic titillation. Yet the portfolio exhibits the internal contradictions of Schiele's personality, most evidently through portraits of his wife Edith and her sister Adele." (Claire Cass, Rediscovering Portfolio Prints by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, Jason Jacques Gallery, New York, 31 March-31 May 2006, p. 58).