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THE WOMAN QUESTION: Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka explores three Austrian masters of Modernism and their shared fixation on the female body. The artists’ work reflects turn-of-the-century Vienna’s preoccupation with gender relations, which at the time were undergoing a radical transformation. More than 60 paintings, watercolors and drawings reveal how the three artists probed and defined modern sexual identity.

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Egon Schiele (1890-1918), and Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) each approached what was then commonly referred to as the “woman question” in slightly different, …