Egon Schiele, “Portrait of Wally,” 1912
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the last day to see Schiele‘s much litigated “Portrait of Wally” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, before it is released to its owner, the Leopold Museum. That Vienna museum, which houses the Expressionist collection of the late Rudolf Leopold, recently agreed to pay a $19-million settlement to the heirs of Lea Bondi Jaray, from whom the Nazis expropriated the painting in 1939.
At 7 p.m. Wednesday, a three-member panel, moderated by the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s director, David Marwell, will publicly discuss the painting’s tangled history, the protracted litigation over its ownership and the broader implications of that vexing case.