Packet 8: Tossup 17

In a painting by this artist, a vibrant naked woman lies on and twists around a woman in a yellow (-5[1])dress with lifeless, bead-like eyes. This artist posed with a v-shaped hand gesture for the first time in a self-portrait (-5[1])in a peacock waistcoat. This artist depicted the inside of a jail cell in paintings like The Orange Was the Only Light during a trial in which a judge burned one of his sketches in court. A 1915 oil painting by this artist in which a thin-armed, kneeling woman in a patterned (15[1])red gown (-5[1])clutches the lap of a man (15[1])who bends over her, grasping her head is often (-5[1])compared (15[1])to (-5[1])Oskar (*) Kokoschka’s (-5[2])Bride of the Wind. This student of Gustav Klimt (10[4])depicted himself (10[4])and his lover (10[2])Wally (10[2])Neuzil (10[6])in his painting Death (10[1])and the (10[1])Maiden. (10[3]-5[2])For (10[1])10 points, name this (10[1])Austrian expressionist (10[1]-5[1])known for his bony, sexual nudes. ■END■ (10[5]0[8])

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