Zeichnungen: Egon Schiele. 12 Blätter in Originalgrosse. [Drawings: Egon Schiele.12 Plates in Original Size] .12 Heliotype plates, of which 11 are original and 1 (plate VII) is a facsimile. Average size of plates: 475x310mm (18 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.). The title page HANDSIGNED, DATED AND NUMBERED BY EGON SCHIELE. Folio, introduction plate, and title page containting title, plate list, and colophone laid into publisher`s boards with cover illustrated with Schiele`s self-portrait . Printed by Max Jaffé. number 245 of 400 copies. Vienna: Buchhandlung Richard Lanyi, 1917.

This very rare portfolio was printed in 1917 by Max Jaffé under Schiele's supervision, one year before Schiele's death in 1917.  The printing plates and negatives were destroyed after printing to ensure that the printing would stay unique.  The inside cover of the portfolio bears an ex-libris sticker  from Helene Goldstern.  The illustrations, purposefully printed in the same size as the drawings from which they were made, are testaments to Schiele's psychological intensity and erotically charged sensuality.