Woman Buttoning Her Shoes (recto); Study for Reclining Nude with Arms Raised (verso)
Egon Schiele
1915
Medium
Charcoal on paper
Dimensions
19 in. × 12 3/8 in. (48.3 × 31.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number
1984.433.304a, b
Tags
WomenDressing
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, ...