Victor (Viktor) Hammer (Vienna 1882-1968 New York)
Portrait of artist Lilly Steiner (Vienna 1884-1961 Paris)
1916
pencil on thick paper
circa 28 x 24,5 cm
in pencil above signed, inscribed, and dated:
"/ Victor Hammer / Wien in Juni 1916 /"
verso titled: "Porträt Lilly Steiner"
verso stamped: "unverkäuflich unentlehnbar" ["cannot be borrowed"]
The Daulton Collection
Egon Schiele was in Lilly Steiner's social circle, and he drew at least five portraits of her one of which is now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
