Egon Schiele - “The embrace, 1917”.

Egon Schiele: “The embrace, 1917”.
Authorized offset litho.

Condition: in excellent condition.
At the bottom, in the margin, the name of the artist, the title of the work, and copyright are written in small letters.

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Egon Schiele was an important 20th-century figurative painter from Austria. He produced an abundance of vibrant paintings and drawings, the vast majority of which depict the naked female form.

As a protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele became known.
for his raw, psychological intensity and bold depictions of the human form. His work broke with the ornamental sensuality of the Vienna Secession and introduced a radical honesty that explored vulnerability, sexuality and the complexity of human emotions.
Schiele's distinctive style is characterized by
Expressive linework, distorted anatomy, and a striking use of color and space. His portraits and nudes, often confrontational in their gaze and pose, reveal an unrestrained exploration of desire and identity. The artist's ability to capture both physical tension and psychological depth distinguishes him from his contemporaries and establishes him as a central figure in the transition from Symbolism to Expressionism.

Schiele's career was tragically short. He died at the age of 28 during the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, just a few days after his pregnant wife Edith had died. Despite this, he produced in less than a decade an astonishingly intense body of work, which today places him among the leading artists of modern art.

The Embrace, painted in 1917, is one of Schiele's most powerful late works and a mature synthesis of his themes. The composition shows two entwined figures locked in an intimate, almost desperate embrace. Their bodies are rendered with taut muscles, angular limbs, and expressive distortion, emphasizing emotional urgency over sensual harmony.

The figures lie on a crumpled white sheet that
It functions as both a compositional anchor and psychological space, independent of any narrative context. The background is roughly painted, with visible brushstrokes that amplify the sense of immediacy. The embrace balances tenderness and fear, love and dependency, and reflects Schiele's focus in his later period on human connectedness as both salvation and vulnerability. Compared with his earlier, harsher erotic works, The Embrace shows greater emotional depth and painterly richness, while the unmistakable intensity is retained.

Nowadays, the works of Schiele belong to
the most coveted on the art market. Original drawings and paintings regularly fetch prices of several million dollars at major auction houses. Paintings such as Houses with Colorful Laundry (1914) have earned more than $40 million, while his expressive figure drawings are highly valued by collectors around the world.

Some artists of similar significance, such as Basquiat, Picasso, Hockney, Lichtenstein, Sorolla, Banksy, Brainwash, Miró, Nara, Soulages, Lagasse, Ramos, Rothko, Toulouse-Lautrec, Klimt, Modigliani, Hirst, Chagall, Koons, Haring, Indiana, Mondrian, Groening, Richter, Monroe, Kusama, Murakami, Testa, Villemot, Oldenburg, Hopper, Ripolles, Wesselmann, Magritte, Jenk, Orlinski, Wille, Rizzi, Manara, Thiebaud, Herrera, Laurent, Klein, Coa, Dior, Vuitton, Kaws, Valentino, Cappiello, Kandinsky, Warhol, Buffa, Tura, Castle, Ponti, Knoll, Le Corbusier, Robert, Johns, Starck, Breuer, Nelson, Mogensen, Ponti, Bertoia, Urquiola, Chillida, Magistretti, Gauguin, Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Botero, Katz, Braque, among others.