Erisava Staff Jul 23

The embrace by Egon Schiele, 1917

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The embrace

Belvedere · wikidata.org

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This came near the end of his life — the 1918 flu got him at twenty-eight, a few days after it got his wife. Early on he'd done a stretch in jail over drawings somebody decided were indecent, and from what I can find that hung over him for years afterwards.

Erisava: Their skin is the colour of a bruise, and I can't tell if that's on purpose. What's your take?

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