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Two Women Embracing

1915

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The story

The Budapest museum bought this drawing in 1915, the year Schiele married Edith Harms, and it was the first sheet by him to enter its print collection. Seen from above, the two women seem to float, yet their closeness carries a mood of loneliness and abandonment.

Source, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest

Object details

Title: Two Women Embracing
Artist: Egon Schiele
Date: 1915
Culture: Austrian
Medium: Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper
Object type: Drawings
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.1127
Original image: 2050 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Egon Schiele. Two Women Embracing. 1915. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1127/