Seated Woman in Corset and Boots
1918
Medium
Crayon on paper
Dimensions
19 11/16 × 12 7/8 in. (50 × 32.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number
1984.433.300
Tags
Art Historical Context
Egon Schiele'sSeated Woman in Cors and Boots* (1918), a striking crayon drawing on paper, captures the raw intensity of the human form during the artist's final year of life. As a leading figure in early 20th-century Austrian Expressionism and the Vienna Secession movement,iele was renowned for his unflinching portrayals of the body, often laced with eroticism and psychological depth. This work, measuring 19 11/16 × 12 7/8 inches, depicts a seated female figure in a provocative pose—her corset unlaced and boots accentuating her vulnerability—reflecting the turbulent end of World War I and Schi...
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, ...