Women are depicted as erotically powerful in Viennese early 20th-century art and this strong, towering portrait recalls Klimt's painting of the Biblical hero Judith
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The florid fantasy of fin de siècle Vienna twists before our eyes into something more intensely physical in this drawing poised between rococo frilliness and raw sexuality
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One of the delights of Schiele's graphic works is his playful and easy command of various media, apparently at random as the mood takes him, as here in this flowing watercolour
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No artist had ever posed and seen the nude figure as Schiele did, in a way at once violent and sensitive. Witness this model's thinness and the magic of her dress, so sharp with the unlikely beauty of real life
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In this drawing, Schiele comes close to the lyrical atmosphere of his older Viennese contemporary Gustav Klimt, who led the way in depicting dreams and encouraged the young Schiele
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The genius of Schiele in all its glory: other artists had created erotica, but no one had ever put his own desires so confidently and absolutely on the line as Schiele does here, in a modernist masterpiece of energy and delight
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For once, Schiele comes close to conventional titillation, with a contrived pose perhaps calculated to please collectors. However, the brilliant fairyland colours, balletic grace and clear gaze of his model lend the work great beauty
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Here, an erotic sketch is raised to the silent stillness of monumental art in a style very close to Schiele's large-scale paintings: faceted, sculptured, timeless
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In this amazing work we see how Schiele is at once realistic and fantastical, the harshness of his lines redeemed by dreams of colour that allow him to match orange stockings with orange nipples
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The sense of friendship between Schiele and his women is so evident here in a simple, honest, and perfect drawing that starts as erotica but changes into a portrait
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Adele Harms was the sister of Schiele's wife; their parents were respectable and well-off and this is about as close as Schiele gets to a scene of middle-class domesticity
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The model's steady, fierce gaze back at us, her uncompromising pose, and Schiele's acute depiction of physical reality in a powerful black line are absolutely erotic; yet the honesty and intensity of this picture has nothing in common with pornographic cliche
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This is one of Schiele's last works. His fame and success as the dangerous hero of Austrian modern art were growing when his wife Edith – and then, a few days later, Schiele himself – died in the flu epidemic that ravaged Europe at the end of the first world war
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