The Scornful Woman (Gertrude Schiele), Egon Schiele, 1910
Naked to the waist and wearing a huge hat, she looks at someone with scorn at her side. The caricatured expression,what would have been a fine society lady in a black hat has been transformed into a fish wife, scornful, yet vulnerable.
the placing on the paper and the shortening of the hat and figure it'self reminds me of Lautrec, as does the medium, but the painting is also equally parts a distortion of Klimt.
Thanks Jo
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