‘WIKIPEDIA Portrait of Wally Portrait of Wally is a 1912 oil painting by Austrian - painter Egon Schiele of Walburga "Wally" Neuzil, a woman Portrait of Wally whom he met in 1911 when he was 21 and she was 17. She German: Portat von Wally became his lover and model for several years, depicted in a number of Schiele's most striking paintings. The painting was obtained by Rudolf Leopold in 1954 and became part of the collection of the Leopold Museum when it was established by the Austrian government, purchasing 5,000 pieces that Leopold had owned. Near the end of a 1997-1998 exhibit of Schiele's work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the painting's ownership (provenance) history was revealed in an article published in The New York Times. After the publication, the heirs of Lea Bondi Jaray, to whom the work had belonged before World War II, contacted the New York County District Attorney who issued a subpoena Artist Egon Schiele forbidding its return to Austria. The work was tied up in 9 litigation for years by Bondi's heirs, who claimed that the | Y°@" 1912 painting was Nazi plunder and should have been returned to Medium Oil on panel them. Dimensions 32 cm x 39.8 cm (13 in x 15.7 in) In July 2010, the Leopold Museum agreed to pay $19 milli in July 2010, the Leopold Museum agreed to pay $19 million | ion Leopold Museum to Bondi's heirs under an agreement that would address all outstanding claims on the painting.“2] Contents Neuzil Relationship Early ownership and Nazi seizure Efforts at recovery Legal proceedings See also References External links Relationship with Neuzil In 1911, Schiele met the seventeen-year-old Walburga (Wally) Neuzil, who moved in with him in Vienna and modeled for him. Very little is known of her; she may have previously modelled for Gustav Klimt and might have been one of Klimt's mistresses. Schiele and Wally wanted to escape what they perceived as the claustrophobic Viennese milieu, and went to the small town of Cesky Krumlov (Krumau) in southern Bohemia. Although Krumau was the birthplace of Schiele's mother (and is today the site of a Schiele museum), he and his lover were driven out of the town by the residents, who strongly disapproved of their lifestyle which included his alleged employment of the town's teenage girls as models.