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SCHIELE, Egon: Female Nude Bending to the Left

🖼 Female Nude Bending to the Left, 1918
Washington, United States

Contorted limbs and angular brushwork render a kneeling figure in raw vulnerability, her body twisted in an uncomfortable pose against stark white. Schiele's expressionist nude challenged early 20th-century decorum, merging psychological intensity with bodily authenticity to redefine figurative art's emotional power.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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