Description
Egon Schiele – Setting Sun, 1913
The hand-painted Egon Schiele painting Setting Sun is an oil reproduction of a work from 1913. The original is held by the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
Two trees in front of a landscape
Two slender saplings stand in the foreground: the left one still carrying rust-coloured autumn leaves, the right one almost bare. Their trunks are painted as two verticals that cut the full height of the picture and divide it into three bands.
A pink sky and two peaks
The sky is pale pink and violet, combed into horizontal strokes. Two pink mountain peaks rise on the horizon, and between them rests a small red disc of sun — the only warm, closed shape in the painting.
A hillside in bands
The lower two thirds are a dark green and olive hillside built from horizontal bands. Tiny yellow flowers are scattered across it and read as points of light in the dark.
The red stake
At the lower centre a thin red stake is driven into the grass. It is small but it holds the eye, tying the bottom edge to the sun above. The work is signed and dated at the right, “EGON SCHIELE 1913”.
Technique and format of the original
The original is painted in oil on canvas, in the near-square format 90 × 90.5 cm (inv. LM 625), 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.
