Self-Portrait with Physalis, Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele·Self-Portrait with Physalis·1912·Oil and opaque colour on wood·Leopold Museum, Vienna↓

Egon Schiele Austrian, 1890 – 1918

Self-Portrait with Physalis, 1912

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Schiele's head twists over his shoulder, eyes narrowed, against an empty white ground. A companion to his portrait of Wally Neuzil, it shows the self as something nervous and exposed, pinned like a specimen.

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The Chinese lantern plant beside him mirrors the red of his lips and eyelids.

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