Gerstl would take his own life in November 1908, at the tender age of 25. To do the deed, he first stabbed himself in the torso. When this failed, he hung himself in front of a mirror in his new studio, surrounded by his paintings. His last known painting was Nude Self-Portrait With Palette, completed in September 1908, which shows a sickly pale and thin Gerstl on a vivid blue background. The long, jagged... (http://listverse.com/2015/07/18/10-final-paintings-by-artists-who-committed-suicide/) Whilst, according to Alois, this was Gerstl’s last work, its jagged, intense, elongated brushwork may reflect the speed of executing a self-nude in his home. Its same eerie blue aura acts as a conscious reference to his 1902 blue self-portrait. His legs, though, are disproportionately long, bringing his sex, painted in far deeper hue than the rest of his painfully pale torso... http://www.richardgerstl.com/chronology-of-gerstls-works/gmunden-1908-gerstls-suicide/selbstbildnis-akt-in-ganzer-figur