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Look at the few broad black strokes that make the whole collar and shoulders, then at the small touches of red on the lips and around the eyes.
Schiele painted himself in watercolor over pencil in 1912, on light brown japan paper, and signed and dated the sheet at the right. MoMA’s 1986 Vienna 1900 guide points out that self-portraits mattered to Schiele as they never did to Klimt. On the back of the sheet is a pencil sketch of part of a face.
watercolor over graphite on light brown wove japan paper; partial sketch of face in graphite on verso · overall: 34.9 x 25.4 cm · National Gallery of Art · Expressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Self-Portrait
- Artist
- Egon Schiele Austrian, 1890 - 1918
- Date
- 1912
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite on light brown wove japan paper; partial sketch of face in graphite on verso
- Dimensions
- overall: 34.9 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Hildegard Bachert in memory of Otto Kallir
- 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.