Egon Schiele (after) - Blondes Mädchen Mit Grünen Strümpfen - Offset Lithography - M&S licensed print ** NO RESERVE **

Offset lithograph after Egon Schiele (*)
Reproduction detail of the work 'Blondes Mädchen Mit Grünen Strümpfen,' created by Egon Schiele in 1914.
Edited on thick Fine Art 250g cardboard.
Published by M&S.
Authorized printing with legal copyright and serial number.
Large Format.

Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
Condition: Excellent (this artwork has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, and therefore remains in perfect condition).
Provenance: Private collection.

The artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced cardboard box. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

Despite his premature death at just thirty years old, the painter Egon Schiele is considered, along with Oskar Kokoschka, the leading representative of Austrian Expressionism. He began his artistic studies in 1906 at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, under Professor Christian Griepenkerl, and left in 1909 to form the New Art Group with other young painters, such as Anton Peschka. The group's manifesto, written by Schiele, defended the artist's individuality, which led to the group dissolving shortly thereafter.
During these early years, Schiele was very attracted to the modernist currents of Jugendstil and especially to the work of Gustav Klimt, whom he had met in 1907. He presented his work to the Viennese public at the 1909 Internationale Kunstschau exhibition, where he came into contact with his first and most important patrons, such as critic Arthur Roessler, who would also become protagonists in his portraits.
In his work, focused on the representation of the human figure, he emphasized the obsession with self-portraiture, in which he analyzed his body transcending the cultural and moral conventions of the time. This was complemented by his interest in depicting the various facets of sexuality, which led his art to be frequently labeled as pornographic. This circumstance forced him to change residence in 1911, spend a period in prison in 1912, and witness the public burning of some of his works. From 1911 onwards, he created series of urban landscapes, including his hometown of Krumau (now part of Czechia). With these works, his art moved toward simplification, and even to abstraction, a style that would also be reflected in his later representations of trees.
At the beginning of the 1910s, Schiele began to establish contacts outside Austria, participating in various exhibitions. Thanks to the recognition of his work, his poor financial situation gradually improved. On the other hand, his marriage in 1915 to Edith Harms gave his painting a somewhat more optimistic tone, despite the fact that a few days after their wedding, he was called up to serve due to the outbreak of the First World War. He died in 1918, a victim of a flu epidemic.