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Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Raised Arms (1914), gouache and pencil, 48.4 x 32.1 cm.
Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Raised Arms (1914), gouache and pencil, 48.4 x 32.1 cm.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws,
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
--T.S. Eliot,
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock