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Portrait of Wally is a 1912 oil-on-canvas painting by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele, depicting the young model Walburga Neuzil. Although little is known about the subject, she might have been one of his mistresses, and died tragically at a very young age. The painting had been owned by Lea Bondi, a Jewish art dealer who was fleeing the German annexation of Austria and had to sell it in 1939. The work was restituted to the owners only in 2010, it now forms part of the collection of the Leopold Museum in Vienna.Painting credit: Egon Schiele