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Portrait of Wally is a 1912 oil painting by Austrian painter Egon Schiele of Valerie Wally Neuzil a woman he met in 1911 when she was 17 years old and who was a model for a number of Schiele’s most striking paintings. The painting was purchased by Rudolf Leopold in 1954 and became part of the collection of the Leopold Museum when it was established by the Austrian government purchasing 5000 pieces that Leopold had owned.
