• Self Portrait with Eyelid Pulled Down by Egon Schiele, 1910
  • Self Portrait with Eyelid Pulled Down by Egon Schiele, 1910
  • Self Portrait with Eyelid Pulled Down by Egon Schiele, 1910
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Self Portrait with Eyelid Pulled Down by Egon Schiele, 1910

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    Collectible museum-grade fine art print, hand-printed in England and individually finished with a monogram emboss. Each sale directly supports the artisan. Listed dimensions include a white border for easy framing.

    ABOUT THIS PAINTING

    Extreme expressions, including grimacing, is another Egon Schiele trademark – he often performed facial gymnastics in self-portraits and encouraged his models to pull playful, unflattering poses, too. As well as being visually arresting – it’s hard to look away from the subject of a portrait when an eye is screwed or a mouth contorted – Schiele was also experimenting with a new language of expression. As a sixteen-year old student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1906, the young Schiele had come into contact with Hermann Vincenz Heller, who taught anatomy. The professor had long been interested in the link between facial expressions and the soul – and was familiar with depictions of the exaggerated features of hysteria patients at the Salpêtière in Paris. This undoubtedly influenced Schiele’s subsequent artworks, including this self-deprecating self-portrait, which the artist made at the age of twenty – pulling at his own eye, his head tilted in delightful derision. – Sophie Haydock

    Painted: 1910
    Location:     Vienna, Austria
    Repository: The ALBERTINA Museum
    Artist:     Egon Schiele
    Original Format:     Watercolour over black chalk on packing paper

    PRINT CREDENTIALS

    Presented on 315gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta; a pleasantly warm, pure cotton paper with subtle texture, providing excellent reproduction of colour and detail, deep blacks, and perfect contrasts.
    ORIGINAL CAPTION

    "Selbstbildnis mit herabgezogenem Augenlid"
    ["Self-portrait with drawn-down eyelid"]

    Self Portrait with Eyelid Pulled Down by Egon Schiele, 1910
    Self Portrait with Eyelid Pulled Down by Egon Schiele, 1910
    Self Portrait with Eyelid Pulled Down by Egon Schiele, 1910

    THE WOMEN OF EGON SCHIELE

    A beautiful collaboration with award-winning author Sophie Haydock

    Sophie Haydock is an award-winning author living in east London. 'The Flames' is her debut novel. She is the winner of the Impress Prize for New Writers. Sophie trained as a journalist at City University, London, and has worked at theSunday Times Magazine, Tatler and BBC Three, as well as freelancing for publications including the Financial Times, Guardian Weekend magazine, and organisations such as the Arts Council, Royal Academy and Sotheby's. Passionate about short stories, Sophie also works for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award and is associate director of the Word Factory literary organisation. Her Instagram account @egonschieleswomen - dedicated to the women who posed for Egon Schiele - has a community of over 110,000 followers, and continues to grow.

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