Rare Vintage Egon Schiele Lithograph 'Crouching Nude'. This offset lithograph was printed in 1950 in limited numbers by the state printing office of Austria in Vienna. 

Egon Schiele

Austrian, 1890–1918

During his tragically brief career, Egon Schiele carved himself a distinct niche in 20th-century art with his beguiling, sinuous figurative portraiture. Schiele usually rendered his sitters and self-portraits in sepia and earth-toned shades of pencil, watercolor, and oil. He evoked his subjects’ interior landscapes via expressionistic linework and exaggerated, emaciated proportions. Schiele’s nudes, in particular, demonstrate a daring approach to themes of sensuality and desire. The artist studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna but left in frustration at the school’s conservative approach to figuration. Schiele sought out Gustav Klimt, who mentored him. The younger artist died in 1918 from the Spanish flu—just months after his mentor passed away. Schiele’s works belong in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Leopold Museum, which houses more than 200 of them. 

In good vintage condition. Comes unframed. 

Measures.

Height               13.3/8 inches            -   34 cm

Width                9.1/2 inches               -   23.5 cm