Egon Schiele - Seated Woman with Knee Drawn Up

A young woman of intense beauty, with porcelain-coloured skin and red hair, stares at the viewer with a defiant, erotically charged look: the picture, created in 1917, is permeated by a magnetic energy bordering on aggressiveness, which is underlined by the model's tense, nervous posture. The emptiness around her in which the figure floats is another source of oppression.© IMAGNO - ART HISTORY