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Literally lifting the skirts of bourgeois respectability, Egon Schiele’s unashamed nude drawings deserve far more notoriety than just their elicit subject matter. Schiele’s naked bodies are spectacularly modern, pushing the nude well beyond anything his contemporaries were doing as he lay bare what he felt human sexuality and desire was all about. He was particularly fascinated by sexuality, and in this area he broke numerous contemporary taboos.In 1910, thanks to his friendship with the gynaecologist Erwin von Graff, he gained access to a women’s clinic and there made a series of drawings of naked pregnant women. He shows women flaunting their genitalia and women masturbating. He records lesbian as well as heterosexual coupling. His models are also often self-conscious when they exchange glances with the artist – and, by extension, with the viewer. Schiele’s erotic drawings also make some interesting allusions towards his bohemian personal life. It has been suggested, for example, that the 1915 image of two women locked in a close embrace, ‘Two Girls Embracing (Friends)’, mirrors Schiele’s indecision between his lover Wally and his wife Edith.
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