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SCHIELE, Egon: Self-Portrait with Eyelid Pulled Down

🖼 Self-Portrait with Eyelid Pulled Down, 1910
Albertina
Vienna, Austria

Distorted features and contorted posture dominate this raw self-portrait, with pulled eyelid exposing psychological vulnerability. Schiele's expressionist technique anticipated modern art's obsession with inner torment and bodily transgression.

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