Self-Portrait

Deutsche Grafik 1903–1925, 1912

A man with large, dark eyes glowers at us from under black brows, one of which is lowered and the other cocked in this drawn, vertical portrait. The man’s face is angled slightly to our left, but he looks out with his red lips twisted up to our right. The planes of his cheeks, lines across his forehead, nose, and thin, narrow chin are painted lightly and broadly with pale gray and pale pink to suggest light skin tone and shadows. His black hair is tousled, and the open collar of his shirt is suggested with a few lines sketched in graphite and emphasized with strokes of black paint. The artist signed and dated the drawing to the right, “EGON SHIELE 1912.”
Artista
Deutsche Grafik 1903–1925
Datazione
1912
Tipologia
Disegno
Tecnica
watercolor over graphite on light brown wove japan paper; partial sketch of face in graphite on verso
Dimensioni
34,9 × 25,4 cm
Collezione
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Licenza
Pubblico dominio, CC0

Descrizione dell’immagine

A man with large, dark eyes glowers at us from under black brows, one of which is lowered and the other cocked in this drawn, vertical portrait. The man’s face is angled slightly to our left, but he looks out with his red lips twisted up to our right. The planes of his cheeks, lines across his forehead, nose, and thin, narrow chin are painted lightly and broadly with pale gray and pale pink to suggest light skin tone and shadows. His black hair is tousled, and the open collar of his shirt is suggested with a few lines sketched in graphite and emphasized with strokes of black paint. The artist signed and dated the drawing to the right, “EGON SHIELE 1912.”

Deutsche Grafik 1903–1925