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Count the colored stripes on the blue jacket and on the band below it, then notice how much bare paper Schiele leaves around the figure.
Schiele drew a seated woman from behind in 1917 and colored her striped blue jacket in watercolor and gouache. MoMA’s 1986 Vienna 1900 guide singles out his skill with bodies in difficult, foreshortened poses and his feel for the shape of the sheet. The drawing came to the Met in the bequest of Scofield Thayer, as did Schiele’s Portrait of Herbert Rainer.
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper · 18 1/8 x 11 3/4 in. (46.4 x 29.8 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Expressionism
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- Museum title
- Seated Woman, Back View
- Artist
- Egon Schiele (Austrian, Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)
- Date
- 1917
- Medium
- Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 18 1/8 x 11 3/4 in. (46.4 x 29.8 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.