Self-Portrait
Brush and Chinese ink on paper
39,7 × 29 cm
signed and dated (b. l.): Arnold Schönberg Mai 1918
Catalogue raisonné 19

Belmont Music Publishers, Los Angeles
courtesy Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien

Dedication (r.): “To Mr. Milton S. Koblitz / Dear Mr. Koblitz: only / an optimist like you will / recognize me in this selfportrait. /But your optimism was victorious over / my pessimism: it will also conquer / this problem. / Thank you. / cordially yours Arnold Schoenberg / February 18, 1949.” Milton Koblitz was Arnold Schönberg’s attorney.