Seated Woman with Bent Knee
1917 · Gouache, watercolour and black crayon on paper · National Gallery Prague
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About this work
- Artist
- Egon Schiele (1890–1918)
- Year
- 1917
- Medium
- Gouache, watercolour and black crayon on paper
- Original size
- 46 × 30.5 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery Prague
- Movement
- Expressionism
A young woman with a mass of orange-red hair sits on the ground, resting her cheek on one raised knee in a dark stocking and looking straight out; she wears a deep green top and a white petticoat, and her other leg falls aside. Around her there is nothing but the cream paper. Schiele made the sheet in 1917 in gouache, watercolour and black crayon, with stiff, visibly dragged strokes and sharp, broken outlines. The palette is held to cream, white, black, green, red and orange. It belongs to the National Gallery Prague, in its collection of works on paper.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Orange hair, deep green and black stockings on bare cream paper make a striking single figure for a bedroom, dressing room or study. Pair it with Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril at 12×18 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1917)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- bedroom, study or library, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 12×18. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
