Portrait of the Artist's Sister-in-Law Adele Harms, 1917 Size:(A2) Large and the visually arresting composition

and the visually arresting composition really caught me

a woman who will not be erased

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Portrait of the Artist's Sister-in-Law Adele Harms, 1917 Size:(A2) Large and the visually arresting compositionABOUT THIS PAINTING Egon Schieles Portrait of the Artists Sister in Law, Adele Harms (1917) is an artwork that seethes with quiet intensity. Adele older sister of Schieles wife, Edith sits rigidly, her body wound tight. Her hands knot, clasped in a way that suggests both restraint and control, as if shes containing something within herself. Her eyes, fixed on the viewer, hold a mixture of defiance and weariness. Shes not inviting us in, nor is she