Squatting Woman
1914
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 19 × 12 3/8 in. (48.3 × 31.4 cm) Sheet: 20 3/4 × 15 1/2 in. (52.7 × 39.4 cm) Frame: 23 × 17 × 1 1/2 in. (58.4 × 43.2 × 3.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number
1984.1203.198.3
Tags
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, ...