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The Embrace
Date1917

Artist Egon Schiele (1890 Tulln – 1918 Wien)

ULAN

Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
100 × 170 cm
Signatureunlabelled
Inventory number4438
Location Upper Belvedere
Egon Schiele shows two lovers intimately embracing in an abstract space. Sprawled on a crumpled sheet, they cling to each other, while their lower bodies appear to be drifting apart. Schiele does not focus on a provocative display of nakedness. He dispenses with explicit poses and piercing gazes. Yet the bodies are still vehicles of inner states. Instead of the figures’ identities, the artist places universal themes at the heart of this depiction. Schiele’s image tells of desire and separation anxiety, tenderness and despair.

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Sammlung Heinrich Rieger, Wien
1950 Ankauf Robert Rieger, New York

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