Portrait of Edith (the artist's wife)
Portrait of Edith (the artist's wife) is a painting by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele. The sitter is Edith Harms, "a middle-class woman from a well established family."[1] It was painted in 1915, during a period of leave for Schiele from the First World War.
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| Year | 1915 |
| Dimensions | 1,837 mm (72.3 in) × 1,147 mm (45.2 in) |
| Location | Kunstmuseum Den Haag |
| Accession No. | 0331896  |
Schiele's paintings are renowned for their portrayals of stark nudity, but the portrait of his wife is in contrast to this. Her long, colourful dress covers her body and creates a much more modest image.[2]
The painting hangs in the Kunstmuseum, in The Hague.
References
- Somerville, Kris (2006). "Portraits of an Artist". The Missouri Review. 29 (2): 97–108. doi:10.1353/mis.2006.0126. ISSN 1548-9930. S2CID 162130175.
- "10918x1y101916". Kunstmuseum Den Haag (in Dutch). 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
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