Two Women Embracing
1913
Medium
Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on paper
Dimensions
18 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (47.6 x 31.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Frederick and Helen Serger Collection, Bequest of Helen Serger, in honor of William S. Lieberman, 1989
Accession Number
1991.179
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About the Artist
Egon Schiele · 1890–1918
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) stands as one of the most provocative and psychologically penetrating artists of early twentieth-century European modernism. Born in Tulln an der Donau, Austria-Hungary, Schiele's brief but intensely productive life ended tragically at age twenty-eight when he and his pregnant wife Edith succumbed to the Spanish flu pandemic, mere days apart. Despite his truncated career, ...