Description
Egon Schiele – Levitation (The-Blind-II)
Egon Schiele – Levitation (The Blind II), 1915
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, Levitation (The Blind II), is an oil reproduction of a large work from 1915. The original is held at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
A double self-portrait
The work is a full-height self-portrait in which Schiele depicts himself twice, in a short, monk-like habit; one figure appears to hover above the other.
First exhibition
The painting was first shown in August 1915 at Guido Arnot’s gallery in Vienna, as the earlier large-scale composition Hermits (1912) had been.
The original’s medium and format
The original is painted in oil and opaque colour on canvas, measuring 201.2 × 171.6 cm (inv. 467) — a large, upright canvas.
Provenance
From Schiele’s estate (1918) the painting passed to Arthur Stemmer (Vienna/London, 1918–1954) and then to Rudolf Leopold; it is now at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oil on canvas and painted in the size you choose.
