Two embracing women seen mostly from behind

Two women embrace, their bare bodies pressed close. One, seen from behind at the centre, has long dark wavy hair falling down her back; the other's pale face, dark hair and red-rimmed eye appear above her shoulder, and an arm reaches across the top of the embrace. Fine orange-red contours trace their backs, and a small red touch marks one breast at the left. The bodies are washed in pale blue-green, beige and ochre against a plain putty ground, cut off at the hips along the lower edge.

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.

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