Edith Schiele News Today

Christie’s will offer six of the seven pieces by Schiele that were restituted to heirs of Fritz Grünbaum last month during its November sales in New York

The sales mark the newest chapter in a years-long saga involving dozens of Schieles once owned by the Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum. 

Sophie Haydock traces the ups and downs of securing a memorial for Adele Harms, subject of her debut novel, The Flames. First Person feature by Sophie Haydock

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

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...