Egon Schiele

Self Portrait with Hands on Chest, 1910, Egon Schiele

Observed in a Dream, Egon Schiele, 1911, Modern and Contemporary Art

Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982 Size: 18 7/8 x 12 5/8 in. (47.9 x 32.1 cm) Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper

Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh, Egon Schiele, 1918, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

The subject of this painting is Schiele's close friend, Paris von Gütersloh (1887-1973), a painter, actor, writer and stage designer. Schiele’s death during the 1918 influenza pandemic, at the age of only twenty-eight, left this portrait of his friend Paris von Gütersloh (1887–1973) unfinished. Nonetheless, the work is a masterpiece of Austrian Expressionist portraiture. Gütersloh was a painter, writer, actor, producer, and stage designer, who wrote the first study of Schiele’s art in 1911. Schiele admired his friend’s extraordinary intellectual and artistic talents and sought to portray him as a creative genius. With hands raised in a gesture of both attraction and repulsion, eyes transfixed and body tense, Gütersloh is shown at the moment of artistic inspiration. Conservation of this picture was made possible by a generous contribution from Al and Dena Naylor through the Art Champions program. Size: 55 1/8 x 43 7/16 in. (140.02 x 110.33 cm) (canvas) 64 x 52 x 2 3/16 in. (162.56 x 132.08 x 5.56 cm) (outer frame) Medium: Oil on canvas

Lilly Steiner, Egon Schiele, 1918, Modern and Contemporary Art

Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982 Size: 17 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. (45.1 x 28.9 cm) Medium: Charcoal on paper

Edge of Town (Krumau Town Crescent), 1918, Egon Schiele

Meadow with Village in Background, 1907, Egon Schiele

Reclining Nude with Boots, Egon Schiele, 1918, Modern and Contemporary Art

Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982 Size: 18 1/4 × 11 5/8 in. (46.4 × 29.5 cm) Medium: Charcoal on paper

Sunflowers, 1911, Egon Schiele

Medium: watercolor,paper

Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh (Bildnis Paris von Gütersloh) from The Graphic Work of Egon Schiele (Das Graphische Werk von Egon Schiele), Egon Schiele, (1918, published 1922), MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of The Lauder Foundation Size: composition (irreg.): 10 1/4 x 11 15/16" (26 x 30.3 cm); sheet: 21 1/4 x 15 11/16" (54 x 39.8 cm) Medium: Lithograph from a portfolio of six drypoints and two lithographs

Standing Girl, Egon Schiele, c. 1910, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

standing female figure who has fabric around waist that she is holding up and partially covers one breast; fabric has geometric pattern Standing Girl is the largest known drawing from Egon Schiele’s short but prolific career. His life played out against the backdrop of Sigmund Freud’s studies of the mind and intense debates about the treatment of human sexuality in the arts. Characteristic of early twentieth-century Viennese art, this provocative sheet—actually brown wrapping paper—epitomizes the era’s decorative ornamentation and decadent eroticism. Schiele’s contours, at once graceful and awkward, create a momentary confusion between bodily mass and negative space, laying open the mysterious relationship between inward and outward realities. Setting the figure’s clawlike hands against her virginal, downcast eyes, Schiele struck a balance between corruption and purity. Size: 52 3/8 x 20 5/8 in. (133 x 52.4 cm) (image) 61 3/8 x 28 5/8 x 3/4 in. (155.89 x 72.71 x 1.91 cm) (outer frame; black) Medium: Conté crayon and tempera wash over black chalk on brown wrapping paper