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Self-Portrait with Physalis
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Egon Schiele
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Schiele turns his own gaunt face into sharp, angular lines beside a sprig of physalis in this 1912 panel, now in the Leopold Museum, Vienna.
Description
Description
Thin layers of oil and opaque colour sit tight against the wood panel, with edges drawn hard and fast rather than blended, giving the face a carved, almost woodcut quality. This Self-Portrait with Physalis reproduction follows that same economy of means: a narrow range of ochres, greys and rust reds, laid down with little attempt to soften the transitions between them. The background stays flat and undefined, so nothing competes with the head and the small orange pods resting near the shoulder.
About Self-Portrait with Physalis Reproduction
Schiele built the face from a few sharp decisions rather than many small ones. The cheekbones are pulled into shadow with a grey that reads almost green beside the flushed patches at the temple and jaw, and the contour of the jaw is drawn in one committed line rather than worked and reworked. The gaze sits slightly off centre, fixed somewhere past the viewer, which gives the picture its unease without any theatrical device to produce it. Beside this gaunt self-study, the physalis sprig is handled with surprising delicacy: the papery orange husks are built from short, dry strokes that sit lighter on the panel than the dense modelling of the head.
The work belongs to 1912, a year in which Schiele was pushing his self-portraiture toward this kind of stripped directness, working at the same time on a companion panel of his muse Wally Neuzil. The two are often read together, one face turned outward in scrutiny of another, the other turned inward on the self. Held now in the Leopold Museum in Vienna, the original panel measures a modest 32.2 by 39.8 centimetres, a scale that makes its psychological pressure feel concentrated rather than diffuse.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum paints each hand-painted oil painting reproduction of this panel on artist-grade canvas, with a trained painter matching the ochre and rust-red palette stroke by stroke rather than printing it. The sharp contour lines are laid down with a loaded brush so the ridge of paint catches light the way Schiele own surface does, and the dry, brittle marks of the physalis pods are built up the same way, stroke over stroke, until the texture of the original is present in the oil itself. The result is a fine art reproduction meant to be read up close, where the handling of the paint is visible rather than smoothed away.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed copy
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