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Object #74 / Arnold Schönberg: Three Self-Portraits

Pencil and Chinese ink on paper
ca. 1907–09
Catalogue raisonné 238

Belmont Music Publishers, Pacific Palisades/CA

“Dear Madam, Do you think I ‘look good’? I don’t know, I am incapable of bringing this across in self-portraits and the more or less favourable effects of a summer holiday must therefore remain concealed.” (Arnold Schönberg to Alma Mahler, summer 1909)

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