Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Mutter und Kind (detail), signed with the initial and dated `S.10.' (lower right), gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper, 21.3/4 x 14.3/8 in. (55.4 x 36.5 cm.) Executed in 1910. Estimate: £1,500,000-2,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd. 2008

LONDON.- An impressive collection of eight major works by Egon Schiele (1890-1918) will be offered in Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale including Art of the Surreal on 4 February 2008. Estimated to fetch in excess of £7.6 million, the collection is being sold to benefit the Neue Galerie in New York.

Mutter und Kind, of 1910, marks a decisive turning point in Egon Schiele's artistic and personal development (estimate: £1,500,000-2,000,000). It was in this year that the young artist would not only achieve a stylistic breakthrough in his art, but would also establish the universally compelling allegory of Mother and Child as an enduring theme in his work. Inspired in part by the monumental paintings of his mentor, Gustav Klimt, Mutter und Kind is one of Schiele's earliest studies on the subject that, he believed, stood as a metaphor for the cycle of birth, life and death.

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Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Liegende Frau mit roter Hose und stehender weiblicher Akt, signed and dated `Egon Schiele 1912' (lower right), gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper, 17.3/4 x 12.1/2 (45.2 x 31.6 cm.). Executed in 1912. Estimate: £2,000,000-3,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd. 2008