Egon Schiele - "The Hug, 1917".

Egon Schiele: “The Hug, 1917"

Authorized color offset litho, produced premium with a high color intensity.
Condition: the work is in excellent condition.

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was one of the most
radical figures of Austrian expressionism. A protég é of Gustav Klimt, he developed a very personal visual language characterized by angular lines, distorted anatomy, raw erotica, and unwavering psychological intensity. His work decisively broke with academic ideals of beauty and instead focused on vulnerability, sexuality, and existential tension.

Despite his short life, cut short by the Spanish flu at only 28, Schiele produced an extraordinary amount of drawings, watercolors, and paintings that deeply shaped modern figurative art.

On the art market, Schiele's works are among the most sought after from the early 20th century. Large oil paintings regularly fetch tens of millions of euros at auction, while works on paper, especially signed, well-preserved drawings and watercolors, are also highly valued and often reach seven-figure prices. Their rarity, historical importance, and unmistakable style form the basis for a consistently strong and resilient market demand.

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 cloth that serves both as a compositional anchor and a psychological space, detached from any narrative context. The background is roughly painted, with visible brushstrokes that intensify the sense of immediacy.

The Embrace balances tenderness and fear, love and dependence, and reflects Schiele's focus in his later period on human interconnectedness as both salvation and vulnerability. Compared with his earlier, harsher erotic works, The Embrace shows greater emotional depth and painterly richness, while retaining the unmistakable intensity.

Never framed and kept in a dark archival storage between protective acid-free paper.
The shown photos are part of the description.

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