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Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso at Met Breuer

exhibition · 2026-05-04

Right now, The Met Breuer in New York is featuring an exhibition called 'Obsession: Nuder by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso.' It showcases some really captivating paper artworks created by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso. You can check it out until October 7, 2018. The show focuses on pieces from the lesser-known Scofield Thayer Collection, which has over 600 artworks that Thayer donated. He was an American publisher who lived in Vienna from 1921 to 1923 for therapy with Freud and collected works from then little-known artists Klimt and Schiele. This exhibition also marks the 100th anniversary of their deaths in 1918, coinciding with celebrations happening in Vienna.

Key facts

  • Exhibition at Met Breuer, New York, until October 7, 2018
  • Features works on paper by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso
  • From the Scofield Thayer Collection of over 600 pieces
  • Thayer lived in Vienna 1921–1923, underwent psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud
  • Thayer founded The Dial in 1919, published avant-garde literature and art
  • Klimt and Schiele both died in 1918
  • Exhibition celebrates centenary of their deaths
  • Show titled 'Obsession: Nuder by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection'

Entities

Artists

  • Gustav Klimt
  • Egon Schiele
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Scofield Thayer
  • Sigmund Freud
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Ezra Pound
  • D.H. Lawrence
  • Arthur Schnitzler
  • Thomas Mann
  • Marcel Proust

Institutions

  • Met Breuer
  • The Dial

Locations

  • New York
  • Vienna
  • Baumgarten
  • Tulln an der Donau
  • Malaga
  • Mougins
  • Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Edgartown
  • United States
  • Austria

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