Description
Egon Schiele – Mourning Woman, 1912
The hand-painted Egon Schiele painting Mourning Woman is an oil reproduction of a work from 1912. The original is held by the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
A face under a veil
A white female face fills the centre of the panel, framed by a heavy black veil that sweeps in a wide arc over the shoulders. The eyes are large, rimmed in blue and turned straight at the viewer; the mouth is red and closed.
The second face behind
At the upper left a second face leans out of the darkness — male, seen in profile and turned away. Schiele gave it his own features, so that the pair is painted as one figure with two heads.
A red rose
At the upper left, on a yellow and red field, a single red rose stands on a thin green stem. It is the only object in the painting and the only colour that is neither black, nor blue, nor flesh.
A blue dress and a band of colour
A blue dress appears below the face, and at the right a narrow band of blue, red and ochre breaks through the black — like the edge of a rug or a cushion. Signed and dated at the lower right, “EGON SCHIELE 1912”.
Technique and format of the original
The original is not canvas: it is painted in oil on wood, measuring 42.5 × 34 cm (inv. LM 461), and hangs today in the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our painter works the reproduction by hand in oil on canvas, in the size you choose. Before delivery you receive a photograph of the painting for approval.
