Masturbation - Egon Schiele Framed Canvas
Description
Egon Schiele’s 1911 Masturbation exposes intimacy as spectacle of modern art. The seated figure, nude beneath a looming black coat, leans inward, head canted, eyes shadowed, hands gathered around the genitals. Flesh tones shift between green, ochre, and rust, conveying decay, heat, and private urgency.
Expressionist distortion tears through anatomical proportion, aligning Schiele with Viennese modernism’s interest in psyche, sexuality, and decay. The stark background offers no refuge: the body itself becomes narrative, scrawled with gestures that blur confession and accusation.
This drawing encapsulates fin-de-siècle fears and fascinations—mortality, repression, solitary desire—rendered through radical figuration. Erotic and unsettling, the work collapses distance between artist and viewer, binding corporeal truth to the fractured pulse of early twentieth-century Vienna.
About the Canvas
Make any room a showpiece
• Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, finely textured for depth and precision.
• Hand-stretched and natural white to capture light/color with striking clarity.
• Printed with non-toxic, water-based pigments that stay vivid for decades.
• Precisely measured floating frame that creates a sleek, gallery-worthy effect.
• Sustainably sourced FSC® certified European knotless pine.
3 distinctive frame colors
Black: Suits every style from bold modernity to gothic opulence.
White: Helps art shine bright in dark rooms to lift your mood.
Natural: Infuses warmth with its rich, honeyed tones.
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Only the Best Will Do
Artist-grade cotton with lush, finely grained texture. Engineered to capture every intricate brushstroke and subtle gradient.
Giclée Printing
Forget 4 color CMYK. Giclée layers up to 12 — alive with deeper shadows, richer highlights and multidimensional contrasts.
A Century of Color
Printed using a pro-lab process that helps art stay bold & breathtaking for up to 100 yr with non-toxic, archival-grade inks.
