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Seated Woman with Bent Knees

Seated Woman with Bent Knees
German: Sitzende Frau mit angezogenem Knie
Seated Woman with Bent Knees
ArtistEgon Schiele
Year1917
MediumGouache, watercolor, and black crayon on paper
Dimensions46 cm × 30.5 cm (18 in × 12 in)
LocationNational Gallery, Prague

Seated Woman with Bent Knees[a] is a 1917 painting in gouache, watercolor, and black crayon on paper by the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele.

As its name suggests, the piece features a woman, depicted in a seated pose. Schiele's wife, Edith, served as the model for Seated Woman, which utilizes a limited color palette, empty background, and sharp, edgy lines.

Like many of Schiele's other works, the piece employs a distinct style that subverts conventional representations of beauty and instead blends an ugly, distorted feeling with a sensual and erotic aesthetic. The piece is now in the National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic.

  1. ^ "Seated Woman with Bent Knees". The National Gallery Prague. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  2. ^ Stirling, Van Cleave & Butler 1997, p. 415.
  3. ^ Steiner 2000, p. 4.


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