Head of a Woman
1908
Medium
conté crayon and pastel on buff paper laid down on board
Dimensions
sheet: 6.03 × 8.89 cm (2 3/8 × 3 1/2 in.) mount: 14.61 × 18.42 cm (5 3/4 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The Robert and Mary M. Looker Family Collection
Accession Number
2016.59.1
About the Artist
Egon Schiele · 1890–1918
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) stands as one of the most provocative and psychologically penetrating artists of early twentieth-century European modernism. Born in Tulln an der Donau, Austria-Hungary, Schiele's brief but intensely productive life ended tragically at age twenty-eight when he and his pregnant wife Edith succumbed to the Spanish flu pandemic, mere days apart. Despite his truncated career, ...