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Seated Woman, Back View  1917

by Egon Schiele

While living in Vienna from 1921 to 1923, Scofield Thayer presumably bought many, or all, of the thirty drawings in his collection by the Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele, whose work was virtually unknown in the United States at the time. [br] Schiele's career was short, intense, and amazingly productive. Before succumbing to influenza in 1918 at the age of twe...
Size: 
18 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (46.4 x 29.8 cm)
Medium: 
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art