Reclining Female with Raised Slip

• Egon Schiele (1890–1918)
• 1915
• Pencil on paper
• Leopold Museum, Vienna

For this drawing, Schiele has depicted the human body in simple, geometric forms. He explored this distinctive style only for a short period. The model’s raised slip is almost scribbled in. With abstract curls as hair and semicircles and small details for the face, the model appears doll-like. Around 1914, when this drawing was made, Schiele avoided individual features and used anonymous geometric forms, and his characteristic “speaking eyes” became empty eye sockets.