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It was not until the last year of his life that he had his first moneymaking show.
MELANCHOLY OBSESSION.
The unabashed sexuality of so many of this paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna. He was obsessed by disease and poverty, by the melancholy of old age and the tyranny of lust.   The children he painted were almost ALWAYS in rags, his portraits were often ruthless to the point of ugliness, and his nudes- including several self-portraits- were stringy, contorted and strangely pathetic.   The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.