(Stribach near Lienz 1868–1926 St. Justina near Bozen)
‘Der letzte zurückschauende Bauer’, fragment III of the first version ‘Der Totentanz von Anno Neun’, 1906–07 (Kirschl M 223), signed Egger Lienz inscribed ‘Totentanz’, oil on canvas, 54 x 47.7 cm, framed, (K)

Illustrated and listed:
Wilfried Kirschl, Albin Egger-Lienz, Das Gesamtwerk, Edition Tusch, Vienna 1977, page 527, M 223/III, full-page illustration page 127. See illustration page 125 (M223)-‘Totentanz von Anno Neun’, first version (cut by the artist)
Wilfried Kirschl, Albin Egger-Lienz, Das Gesamtwerk Band I, Christian Brandstätter Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 1996, page 127 (M223/III9) full-page illustration, see page 125, illustration (M223)
‘Totentanz von Anno Neun’, first version (cut by the artist). Vol II, page 527, M223/III, with small illustration.
In vol. I, page 128 by Wilfried Kirschl with regard to: FIRST (CUT) VERSION 1906–1907 (M223) The oil version painted outdoors before the models was cut by the artist after he used it as a basis for a casein reproduction (M226). Three fragments of the original oil painting (cf fig. on p.127 and in CR, p. 527, M 223 I-III) are preserved. By comparing the pictorial quality of the fragment of the last figure (p. 127) and the corresponding section of the casein version, the cutting of the original oil painting appears all the more regrettable.

Provenance:
Franz Hauer (1867-1914) Vienna
Sale Dorotheum Vienna, 20 March 1918, Lot 104
Dr. Oskar Winkler (1882-1961) Vienna
1938 as a wedding present to Dr. Wilhelm Buchta (1906-1987)
Vienna - his heirs