The Art World’s Defining Evening of 2026
On February 11, 2026, New York’s cultural center of gravity shifts to the Neue Galerie New York for an invitation-only preview of Egon Schiele: Portrait of Dr. Erwin von Graff. Hosted by art star and Neue Galerie President Ronald S. Lauder and directed by the legendary Director of Neue Galerie Renée Price, the evening brings together curatorial authority, collectors, and scholars around one of modernism’s most psychologically charged works by Egon Schiele.
Dr. Erwin von Graff—a learned figure of Vienna’s early-20th-century intellectual elite—embodies the scientific, legal, and humanistic rigor of fin-de-siècle Central Europe. Bearing both academic distinction and social standing, he belonged to the milieu that shaped modern thought, making him an ideal subject for Schiele’s uncompromising psychological gaze. This quiet, exacting preview is not spectacle; it is where art history is affirmed.
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