Self-portrait with Female Nude
graphite on paper
11.3" x 17.2" (28.7 x 44.2 cm)

c.1917-1918. Egon Schiele (1890-1918). National Gallery of Canada.

There is one biographical note on Schiele that it is hard to forget. He died during an influenza epidemic on October 31, 1918, three days after the death of his pregnant wife, Edith.