Egon Schiele: Vivre et Mourir

This exceptional destiny is retraced in Xavier Coste's first comic book – Coste himself was only 22 when he created this album: the tumultuous and fascinating trajectory of a painting meteor, full of contrasts, brilliance, and excess. The work deliberately focuses on the last years of the Austrian painter's life. The rise of a talent, first: his fraternal mentorship by Gustav Klimt, his appetite for conquest and women, his taste for provocation, his first successes. Soon followed by his failures: briefly imprisoned for pornography, Schiele settles down, becomes bourgeois...

The outbreak of the Great War, then the loss of almost all his loved ones, will extinguish his flame, before the Spanish flu takes him in turn. A captivating and personal biographical portrait – and the undeniable evidence of a graphic talent to watch.