1918, Egon Schiele, Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Edith Schiele -- Leopold Museum (Vienna) [special exhibition]

From the museum label:

 

This late portrait of Edith shows her looking calm and relaxed. The seated pose and the suggestion of a room corner - typical features of Schiele's portraits on canvas of this time - fill most of the pictorial space. Edith's presence is heightened and she seems relatively confident - "a tranquil representation of pure existence exuding flourishing life," as the art historian Kurt Rathe put it. It is a curious fact that in the first version of the painting her clothing was vivid and cheerful: a checkered skirt, radiant in hues of blue, green, yellow, and orange, and a top in vibrant orange. Schiele's last works in particular tended toward a much bolder use of color.

 

The portrait was purchased in 1918 by Franz Martin Haberditzl, then director of the Austrian State Gallery (now the Belvedere ), the first Schiele painting to enter an Austrian museum.

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