Self-Portrait

No artist was ever as obsessed with his own image as Egon Schiele. From 1910 onwards his narcissism, or his schizophrenia, led him to portray himself in all kinds of poses in numerous positions and gestures imbued with a very provocative brand of eroticism. The artist portrays himself both naked — in the manner of a wounded Saint Sebastian — and clothed, employing a vast repertory of disguises in …