Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele produced a prolific bodyof work before his early death at the age of twenty-eight in 1918.The oeuvre is comprised of a few hundred oil paintings andthousands of drawings and watercolors.
Schiele's oils have often been reproduced and are wellrecognized. However, limited access to the fragile works on paperand dispersion among several collections have made for anunbalanced representation of his work as a draftsman.
This book assembles drawings and watercolors from public andprivate collections and reproduces work from every year of theartist's career, beginning with the juvenilia and early academicstudies. The focus means that work that is rarely reproduced isrepresented extensively, providing a unique opportunity to studythe rapid artistic development of Schiele over the course of hisbrief twelve-year career.
The book is organized chronologically and divided intoyear-by-year sections. Each section includes a text that discussesthe major events in Schiele's life and the interrelation betweenthe artist's drawing and developments in his oil painting. Featuresa previously unpublished Schiele watercolor and several works thathave never been reproduced in color. Over 350 colorillustrations.
【作者简介】
Jane Kallir is a noted Schiele scholar andthe author of the catalogue raisonné. She is co-director of theGallerie St. Etienne in New York.
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