1990 Royal Academy of Arts Poster, Egon Schiele, "Self portrait" 1910 Expressionism gallery exhibition, wall art decor

1990 Royal Academy of Arts Poster, Egon Schiele, "Self portrait" 1910 Expressionism gallery exhibition, wall art decor

This exhibition poster is from the Royal Academy of Arts for an exhibition in 1990 featuring "Egon Schiele and his Contemporaries". It features Egon Schiele's Expressionist work, "Self portrait" from 1910 wearing a striped shirt.
Dimensions: 30.3 in x 20.1 in (77 cm x 51 cm)

A young man looks into the world with big, questioning eyes. The eyes, the high forehead, and the bushy and unruly hair accentuate a spiritual side of the sitter. The neck supporting the oversized head appears petite and slender. Schiele sketched the boyish chest with sparse lines and painted the sleeve in shades of watercolor, which act as a compositional balance to the colors of the head. In terms of color, the artist was also in full control. In the skin, he contrasted the grey of the brow with the pale red of the cheeks and ear, adding traces of blue on the cheek and enhancing the dark brown hair with shades of purple. This work is in every respect a unique and personal masterpiece in which the carefully considered composition and the intuitiveness of the painting play equal parts.

Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.

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Because of the age of these posters, there are areas of wear and tear, particularly on the edges. I have done my best to take photos where they are torn. The good news is that when framed, the tears press up well against glass, and edges can be hidden by mats. Any wear picked up from years are part of the charm.

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