Description
Egon Schiele – Self Portrait
Egon Schiele – Self-Portrait, 1911
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, his Self-Portrait, is a reproduction of one of his self-portraits from 1911. The original is held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Schiele’s self-portraits
This self-portrait belongs to the large series of self-portraits Schiele produced between 1910 and 1918. He often depicts himself emaciated and taut, using his own body as a vehicle of expression.
The original’s medium
Unlike his oils on canvas, the original is a work on paper: watercolour, graphite (pencil) and gouache, measuring 51.4 × 34.9 cm. (Our painting is a hand-painted oil reproduction — two different techniques, which we state separately.)
Where it is, and how it got there
The sheet is now held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (acc. 1984.433.298ab). It entered the museum as part of the Bequest of Scofield Thayer, the American editor and collector (bequeathed 1982, accessioned 1984).
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oil on canvas and painted in the size you choose.
