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Notice that the orange headband is the strongest color on the sheet, then let the long pencil folds lead your eye down to the hand at lower right.
A dancer rests her head on her raised arm, her body wrapped in a long, pale garment. Schiele drew the outline in pencil, added watercolor and gouache in only a few places, and signed and dated it 1913. MoMA’s 1986 Vienna 1900 guide stresses how many drawings he made.
watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper · overall: 47 x 30.5 cm · National Gallery of Art · Expressionism
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- Museum title
- Dancer (Die Tänzerin)
- Artist
- Egon Schiele Austrian, 1890 - 1918
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 47 x 30.5 cm (18 1/2 x 12 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Liselotte Millard, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.