Portrait of Edith (the artist's wife) by Egon Schiele, 1915 Size:(A2) Large Taken: 1983Location: California

Taken: 1983Location: California

The photograph's focus was so good

Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war

This shot in particular was just spectacular and I knew I had to do it

Henry Hitchings

Portrait of Edith (the artist's wife) by Egon Schiele, 1915 Size:(A2) Large Taken: 1983Location: CaliforniaABOUT THIS PAINTING Egon Schiele made this portrait of his new wife, Edith Harms, after their wedding in 1915. The couple married on the same day that Schieles parents had wed, thirty six years earlier the 17th June. But their wedded joy didnt last long. Just days after they were pronounced husband and wife, Schiele was served his papers to serve as a soldier in the first World War an outcome hed desperately wanted to avoid. This artwork was made