Egon Schiele, The Family, 1918
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Do you know the history of this painting? Tragic and sad.
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I haven't researched it. Have you tried?
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He started painting it as a family portrait (the child was yet unborn) but his wife (and unborn child) died of the Spanish flu...the he died shortly after. The painting was finished after his death.
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