Woman Undressing. View from behind Egon Schiele

• An intimate depiction of an unknown model • In the act of undressing, Schiele heightens the voyeuristic quality of his observation and our viewing • Drawn in 1911, a year of upheaval for Schiele The ‘Woman Undressing. View from Behind’ is part of a small series of drawings from 1911 in which Schiele watches a model undressing. Whilst his nudes and semi-nudes are usually passive figures, depicted standing, sitting or lying down, with isolated items of clothing added to heighten the sense of their nudity, the models in this series of drawings are active participants. They are not semi-nude, but in the process of undressing. Curiously, Schiele succeeds in turning the viewers into even greater voyeurs than they already are. Whereas (semi-)nudity would otherwise seem worthy of contemplation, it is now precisely the activity of the subject that is imbued with a sense of modesty. The model is shown from behind, as if turning away from us so as not to be too closely scrutinised whilst unfastening and removing her corset. This circumstance also obscures the model’s identity. In May 1911, Schiele left Krumau. His youthful models from this town therefore appear in his works only up to that point. Gerti features in numerous drawings. It is, however, Moa in particular – a dancer – whom Schiele depicts time and again. Occasionally, he marks drawings depicting Moa with a signature in an Art Nouveau frame. This is absent here. | 1890 Tulln/Donau - Wien 1918 | Moderne Kunst | Arbeiten auf Papier | Nummer: 26x2375 | Provenance: Sammlung/Nachlass Serge Sabarsky, New York; Sammlung/Stiftung Vally Sabarsky, New York.

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