Vintage 20th Century Signed Egon Schiele Expressionist Female Figural Lithographs - Set of 5

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This set of five (5) vintage 20th century Egon Schiele (Austria 1890 - 1918) signed or monogrammed expressionist figural lithographs … more This set of five (5) vintage 20th century Egon Schiele (Austria 1890 - 1918) signed or monogrammed expressionist figural lithographs (offset) depict his iconic modernist abstracted females. Printed in Italy in 1983. printed on substantial stock . Text on reverse of each. Dimensions: 12" x 16".

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Egon Schiele's career was short, intense, and amazingly productive. Before succumbing to influenza in 1918 at the age of twenty-eight, he created over three hundred oil paintings and several thousand works on paper. The human figure provided Schiele with his most potent subject matter for both paintings and drawings.

With his signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty, Egon Schiele was one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism. His portraits, searing explorations of their sitters' psyches and sexuality, are among the most remarkable of the 20th century. The artist, who was astoundingly prolific during his brief career, is famous not only for his psychologically and erotically charged works, but for his intriguing biography: his licentious lifestyle marked by scandal, notoriety, and a tragically early death of influenza at age twenty-eight, three days after the death of his pregnant wife, and at a time when he was on the verge of the commercial success that had eluded him for much of his career. less