Fauvism & Expressionism · 1912

Portrait of Wally

Egon Schiele 1890–1918

Portrait of Wally (1912) by Egon Schiele. Its palette is led by bone (#d6cdb9, 33%) and light sand (#baa68a, 23%), with accents of graphite, dark red and green. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.

Color reading

Brown covers about three-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, dark red #93301F, takes up just 3% of it.

Palette

#d6cdb9 MG 171 bone 32.9% of canvas
#baa68a MG 181 light sand 23.2% of canvas
#1c1f1c MG 222 charcoal 21.1% of canvas
#6c4329 MG 159 rich brown 9.9% of canvas
#373e38 MG 218 graphite 8.2% of canvas
#93301f MG 020 dark red 2.6% of canvas
#236d32 MG 067 green 2.1% of canvas

Color families

Brown 60%, Black 21%, White 9%, Gray 3%, Green 2%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.59
Contrast: 0.64
Vividness: 0.034
Warmth: +0.96
Complexity: 166 cells
Hue range: 0.51
Focus: 0.00

Composition

53% of the visual weight is in the right half, 65% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.22 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 40% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 24% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1912
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 32.0 × 39.8 cm
Genre: portrait
Collection: Leopold Museum, Vienna

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