Tag: Egon Schiele

Art rebels Basquiat and Schiele face off in Paris shows

by Jean-Louis DE LA VAISSIERE / Fiachra GIBBONS Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Two new major exhibitions opening in Paris on Wednesday counterpoint the work of a pair of art world rebels — Jean-Michel Basquiat and Egon Schiele. Although the black New Yorker who began as a graffiti artist and the early 20th-century Viennese painter came from very different worlds and eras, both lived hard, died young and battled their demons on canvas. […]