Woods in Autumn

• Egon Schiele (1890–1918)
• 1907
• Oil, pencil on cardboard
• Leopold Museum, Vienna

Here, Schiele captures the ephemeral beauty of the autumn season. He employed a palette of dark, melancholic colors to imbue the painting with a sense of decay and introspective solitary walk. Various deep, earthy tones were used to evoke the dying foliage of the late autumn season. The dark hues are occasionally punctuated by lighter, yellow leaves that hint at the lingering life within the melancholic beauty of the forest in autumn.