Egon Schiele

Martin Suppan, Vienna
Louis Stern Fine Art, California
Acquired from the above

Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: The Complete Works, New York, 1998, no. 2353a, illustrated p. 679

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, and t-hinged at the upper two corners. There is some mount-staining to all four extreme edges. The left and right extreme edges are slightly uneven, and there is a minor spot of paper loss towards the right of the lower edge. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition.
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In contrast to the brittle febrility of his earlier nudes, the manner in which he presented the female form in his later works achieves a sense of languorous corporeality (see fig. 1). Jane Kallir comments that, "Schiele’s women are, by 1917-18, thoroughly modern. Like most modern women, they own their sexuality. The nude and semi-nude models take pride in their seductive bodies and are empowered by their allure... Nor are they projections of the artist’s ego. They combine the mystery and the specificity of complete, independent human beings" (Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele’s Women, Munich, 2012, p. 266).