In 1914, Egon Schiele was an emerging artist in Vienna. He met the sisters Edith and Adele Harms, who lived next to his studio. Despite his relationship with Wally Neuzil, he began courting both women and drawing them repeatedly. Edith, whom he would later marry, remained reserved, while Adele appears here as the more open and confident of the two. With a few precisely placed lines, Schiele created an intimate, charged portrait of his future sister-in-law – observed with detachment yet filled with quiet sensuality.

In his later years, Schiele increasingly worked with pencil and chalk, achieving softer lines and rounder forms. This drawing exemplifies his art: a balance between tenderness and intensity, observation and desire. It belongs to the group of powerful portraits of Adele that are rarely seen on the market. After Klimt’s death in 1918, Schiele became Vienna’s leading artist. But he would not have much time to enjoy his fame: that same year, he and Edith died during the Spanish flu epidemic, while Adele lived on until 1968.

In Yves Tanguy’s mysterious worlds, water, earth and air merge into limitless, atmospheric landscapes. The poetic strangeness of his imagery has its roots in childhood memories of Brittany – of myths, storms and the sea. After the early death of his father, a sea captain, and his own voyages as a merchant sailor, Tanguy translated the experience of endless horizons into a unique surrealist language. The floating, biomorphic forms of his paintings resemble driftwood and the fleeting traces of dreams. This early work shows Tanguy’s path to those spiritual landscapes, evoking a realm where reality and the unconscious flow seamlessly together.