Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful draftsmanship and precocious insight into the human condition.
Part of the first wave of Austrian modernism, Schiele was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpreters as Eros and Thanatos). Life, identified with attraction, love, sexuality, and reproduction, and Death, represented by distortion, disease, repulsion, and hysteria, often appeared in the same composition, thereby suggesting the frightening life cycle of the human mind and body.
Young throughout his career, Schiele universalized his childhood traumas, thriving libido, insecurities, fears, and longings. His contorted line, jarring contrasts, and flat areas of color, demonstrate an early alliance with Expressionist philosophy and artists who were relentlessly frustrated by conventionality in all its forms.
Schiele’s work embodied man’s disorientation and confusion in a seemingly absurd world, a world plagued by disease and war. It continues to be astonishingly relevant today, not just because it helped define modernism but also because it revealed the dark and immutable aspects of the human condition. As Schiele said, “Art is primordially eternal.”
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First Edition Rare Portofolio Booklet by Egon Schiele 24 Unframed Prints
By Egon Schiele
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful and rare portfolio by Egon Schiele containing a 14-page booklet and 24 loose color plates with light wear unframed prints, this book was purchased in 1978 from Daley Rare B...
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Original Antique Print of Woodpeckers, 1847 'Unframed'
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of woodpeckers. Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Cpt. Brown with original hand color. Pub...
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$970
H 24.01 in W 35.82 in D 0.1 in
Patrick Nagel 'Swimmers' Lithograph, 1979, Signed, Rare Print, 36x24
By Patrick Nagel
Located in Milano, IT
1970s Original rare gorgeous Patrick Nagel "Swimmers" Lithograph. Signature printed. Copyright 1979 Mirage Editions Inc. Santa Monica. Printed in the U.S.A This lithograph is in exce...
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$3,950
H 26 in W 36 in D 1 in
"Rough Shooting" First Edition Antique Engraving by Douglas Adams, circa 1893
By Douglas Adams
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a first edition print of Rough Shooting, signed by the artist, Douglas Adams. The print was published by Thomas McLean and depicts a highlands s...
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Original Antique Print of Fish, 1847 Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of fish. Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Cpt. Brown with original hand color. Published,...
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Original Antique Print of a Bat, 1847 'Unframed'
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a bat. Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Cpt. brown with original hand color. Published...
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Original Antique Print of Beetles, 1847, 'Unframed'
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of beetles. Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Cpt. brown with original color. Published, 1...
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Original Antique Print of A Bat, 1847 'Unframed'
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a bat. Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Cpt. brown with original hand color. Published...
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Original Antique Print of Deer, 1847 'Unframed'
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of deer. Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Cpt. brown with original hand color. Published ...
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Antique Bible Print First Plague of Egypt by J. Luyken, 1743
Located in Langweer, NL
Exodus 7:19 and the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their po...
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$125
H 3.94 in W 3.65 in D 0.4 in
The Prints of Reginald Marsh by Norman Sasowsky, Catalog Raisonne, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The Prints of Reginald Marsh by Norman Sasowsky. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. / Publisher / Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1976. First Edition hardcover with dust jacke...
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$1,950
H 8 in W 9.5 in D 0.1 in
"Angelic Archers, " Poetry Booklet with Nude Male Cover Illustration by Scheibe
By Scheibe
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rare and beautifully produced, this small booklet of poetry by Alfred Richard Meyer was published in 1921 with a stylized cover illustration by Richard Scheibe...
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Les Lits Booklet Print by Jean Prouvé, 1956, Transparent Paper
By Steph Simon, Jean Prouvé
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Booklet print of the "Les lits", daybeds, of Jean Prouvé. Published by Steph Simon Editions in 1956. Printed on the front in black on transparent paper. In good original condition,...
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Egon Schiele Book by by Erwin Mitsch Phaidon
By Egon Schiele
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Egon Schiele Paperback Book by by Erwin Mitsch. Color and black and white plates throughout. A monograph on the art of Egon Schiele, providing a critical look at his work. Egon Schie...
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Egon Schiele, Women 2011
By Egon Schiele
Located in CA, CA
Egon Schiele. Women, 2011 Published by Richard Nagy Ltd This was especially published for the exhibition at the Richard Nagy Gallery, London 2011 and printed only once. It is an...
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Print Impression "Couple Nu" by Schiele Egon
By Egon Schiele
Located in Sofia, BG
Print impression from the lithography stone of "Couple Nu" by Schiele Egon, (1890-1918).
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