Egon Schiele. Reclining woman wearing stripped stockings 1911.

Egon Schiele. Woman reclining on a pillow 1910

Egon Schiele. Sleeping girl 1911

Egon Schiele. Kneeling nude woman 1912

Egon Schiele. Lovers embracing 1914

Egon Schiele. Seated nude woman 1912.
Egon Schiele’s nude rises like a sculpture from the paper; but instead of being chiseled out of stone, she is being shaped by pencil and brush.

The reference to sculpture, and more precisely to Rodin, is not a haphazard one. The latter’s sculptural work had been presented at the Secession and was therefore known by the younger generation. Especially Schiele perceived it as a revelation in his search for a new idea of human representation.

The present work dates from 1912, the year in which Wally Neuzil became his trusted companion. It is entirely possible that she was the model for the present drawing.

Egon Schiele. Woman with raised hands 1914

Egon Schiele. Standing women in striped costumes 1911

Egon Schiele. Half-nude woman 1917

Egon Schiele. Couple embracing 1914

Egon Schiele. The artist’s mother 1911

Egon Schiele. Nude woman sitting on an orange clothe 1914

Egon Schiele. Mother and two children 1917

Egon Schiele. Gerti Schiele 1910

Egon Schiele. Masturbating woman 1910

Egon Schiele. Vienna Workshop’s postcard, undated

Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman in a green shirt 1913

Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman with a grey shirt 1913

Egon Schiele. Female torso, back view 1913

Egon Schiele. Standing woman in striped stockings 1913

Egon Schiele. Young girl sitting with a bow in her hair 1917

Egon Schiele. Mother and child 1910

Egon Schiele. Procession 1911

Egon Schiele. Reclining nude woman with red garters 1913

Egon Schiele. Woman with dress up 1911

Egon Schiele. Newborn child 1910

Egon Schiele. Newborn child 1910

Egon Schiele. Newborn child 1910

Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman 1910

Egon Schiele. Conversion II 1913

Egon Schiele. Reclining woman bending head 1913

Egon Schiele. Nude woman holding her right leg 1917

Egon Schiele. Nude woman with raised arms 1913

Egon Schiele. Man and woman 1911

Egon Schiele. Kneeling nude woman 1912

Egon Schiele. Kneeling nude woman 1912

Egon Schiele. Two standing women 1913

Egon Schiele. Woman with hat 1913

Egon Schiele. Woman with shirt up 1913

Egon Schiele. Woman with raised skirt 1913. Personal scan, Kallir 1252

Egon Schiele. Edith Schiele with her nephew 1915

Egon Schiele. Seated woman 1917

Egon Schiele. Women embracing 1911

Egon Schiele. Half nude woman, profile view 1914

Egon Schiele. Study of head, arm and hand of a woman 1909

Egon Schiele. Seated woman 1911

Egon Schiele. Seated woman 1911

Egon Schiele. Seated young woman 1911

Egon Schiele. Pregnant woman 1912

Egon Schiele. Back view of a nude man 1910

Egon Schiele. Seated woman 1917

Egon Schiele. Seated half nude woman with hands on kneels 1911

Egon Schiele. Standing couple embracing 1914

Egon Schiele. Half nude woman with left arm raised 1914

EgonSchiele. Girl sitting in a field of flowers 1910

Egon Schiele. Young sick girl

Egon Schiele. Nude woman, back view 1913

Egon Schiele. Young woman with crossed arms 1910

Egon Schiele. Reclining woman 1910

Egon Schiele. Sleeping girl 1917

Egon Schiele. Seated nude woman 1911

Egon Schiele. Gertrud Schiele seated 1910

Egon Schiele. Head of a woman 1908

Egon Schiele. Woman bending over 1914

Egon Schiele. Female torso with black stockings 1917

Egon Schiele. Standing nude with raised arms 1918

Egon Schiele. Gerti 1910

Egon Schiele. Standing girl in green pinafore 1910

Egon Schiele. Reclining woman 1917

Egon Schiele. Two women embracing 1911

Egon Schiele. Seated nude woman 1918

Egon Schiele. Seated nude woman, back view 1911

Egon Schiele. Head of a young woman seen from below 1908

Egon Schiele. Standing nude woman 1910

Egon Schiele. Two nude women 1910

Egon Schiele. Kneeling nude woman 1910

Egon Schiele. Kneeling nude woman 1915

Egon Schiele. Nude woman with orange headband 1913

Egon Schiele. Egon’s sister 1908

Egon Schiele. Crouching woman 1914

Egon Schiele. Young girl in red feather boa 1910

Egon Schiele. Kneeling nude woman 1917

Egon Schiele. Two nude women 1911

Egon Schiele. Lovers 1913