Egon Schiele: Women at Richard Nagy, London

On the 19th of May, the work of Viennese artist Egon Schiele will be exhibited for the first time in 20 years, in the Richard Nagy in Old Bond Street. The founder of the gallery, art collector Richard Nagy states in the press release; "For me, the attraction of mounting a Schiele exhibition focusing on women is a combination of two things: the artist’s rebelliousness and the most exciting drawings of women done in western art history. Schiele’s incomparable genius puts him at the forefront of the artistic rebellion. By 1910 he arrived as an Expressionist, exhibiting a virtuoso use of line in psychologically penetrating, sexually explicit figures. This need to draw such subjects was informed by his youthful erotic energy as much as by his need to cock a snook at the art establishment." This rare exhibition brings together just a few of the plethora of female sketches Schiele created in his short lifetime, dying at the age of 28 from an influenza epidemic in 1918. They show his unconcern for critic's opinions and reviews, vividly sketching women unabashed and in their frank nudity.

Kneeling Nude in Coloured Dress, 1911

Girl in Underclothes, 1917

Gerti Schiele in Large Hat, 1910

Woman Removing Green Stocking, 1914

Standing Nude with Orange Stockings, 1914

Semi Nude in Black Stockings and Blue Jacket, 1913

Woman in Black Pinafore, 1911

Squatting Woman with Boots, 1918

Gerti Schiele in Orange Hat, 1910

Edith Schiele (nee Harms), 1918

Dreaming Woman, 1912

See: Richard Nagy