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The seven drawings, seized from public and private collections throughout the US, are collectively valued at nearly $10m

Four of the Austrian artist Egon Schiele's muses star in Sophie Haydock's debut novel about their lives, The Flames.

a href= https://www.museothyssen.org target= _blank The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza /a is presenting the first selection to be seen in Spain

Four women close to the Austrian painter are illuminated in this impressive debut, set against the tumult of Secession Vienna and its pandemic

The Austrian artist was unusually close with his sister – and his intense relationships with women shaped his brief, tragic life

Egon Schiele's work was often considered shocking at the time, but his signature style made him a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism.

Portrait of the Dying Edith Schiele, by Egon Schiele, 1918. Wikimedia Commons. Let’s begin with Egon Schiele’s elbows: the Austrian artist’s swollen left elbow bent over his head in a gesture of support, the right drawn across his face, almost directly under his nose. Here, in his 1910 painting Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait), rendered in muddy browns and sickly yellows, Schiele’s limbs look withered, his joints too pronounced. His elbows frame his face, drawing attention to one arch...