1918, Egon Schiele, Mountain Torrent (Waterfall) -- Leopold Museum (Vienna) [special exhibition]

"[...] in the morning I lay in the sun in the gully of a mountain torrent, which I also painted," Egon wrote to Edith Schiele on June 17, 1917. The first sketches for this painting on canvas, completed in 1918, were made in Stubai Valley, Tyrol, about an hour's walk from Fulpmes, during a work trip. This is a highly unusual work in Schiele's oeuvre, the only such landscape close-up. The painting shows the often lighter coloring typical of his later paintings, and the marked emphasis on the contours. Despite the numerous, lightly impastoed brushstrokes, in many places Schiele deliberately allowed the thinly primed canvas to remain visible.From the museum label:

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