A gaunt self-portrait, one arm held out and bent at the elbow

A half-length self-portrait on tan paper, the figure outlined in white heightening against the bare ground. The head faces the viewer, tilted slightly, with wide, dark-ringed eyes and open lips; the hair is cropped short in reddish brown. The bare torso and an arm held out to the left at shoulder height, bent sharply down at the elbow, are washed in orange and rust tones with fine pencil hatching. The artist's initials and the date are inscribed at the lower left.

Egon Schiele (1890–1918) was the most uncompromising draughtsman of Viennese Expressionism. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, he exhibited from 1909 and developed an angular, nervous line and a raw treatment of the body — self-portraits, figures, and later townscapes and landscapes of equal intensity. He died in the influenza epidemic of 1918 at twenty-eight, days after his wife. His work is held by the Leopold Museum and the Belvedere in Vienna and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.