Description
Egon Schiele – Seated Woman, Back View, 1917
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, Seated Woman, Back View, is an oil reproduction of a watercolour from 1917. The original is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
What the sheet shows
The sheet shows a woman seated, seen from behind, her hair pinned up and tied with a yellow band. Her blue jacket is run through with vertical green, red and violet stripes, broken at the waist by a narrow banded sash. A cream skirt spreads around her and fills the lower half of the sheet; her right hand is raised, the fingers lightly spread.
The original’s medium and format
The original is watercolour and gouache on paper — the museum records it as “Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper” — measuring 46 × 29.8 cm (inv. 1984.433.294).
Where it is
The work is today in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which received it through the Scofield Thayer bequest (inv. 1984.433.294).
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oil on canvas and painted in the size you choose. We send you a photograph of the finished work for approval before it ships.
