Paula Modersohn-Becker

Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876 - 1907 Kinder mit Ziege und alter Bäuerin. 1902. Oil on cardboard, on canvas. Barely legibly dated “10.1902” in the lower right. 50.5 x 72.8 cm (19.8 x 28.6 in). [CH]. • INDEPENDENT Modersohn-Becker’s expressive, unmistakable visual language unfolds in this clear profile view. • STORYTELLING With wit and playful lightness, the artist depicts everyday life in Worpswede. • EXHIBITIONS First exhibited as early as 1914 and featured multiple times in comprehensive retrospectives in the decades that followed. • PROVENANCE Part of a private collection in northern Germany for over 50 years. • MUSEUM QUALITY Comparable works can be found at, among others, the Von-der-Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; the Kunsthalle Bremen; the Museum Wiesbaden; and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. We are also grateful to Jane Kallir of the Kallir Research Institute in New York for her kind expert advice. PROVENANCE: M. Goldschmidt & Co., Frankfurt am Main (1919). Kurt Grunebaum Collection, Essen/New York (acquired in the 1920s, held until at least 1958). Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen (acquired from the above, with the gallery label on the reverse of the canvas, titled “Kinder mit Ziege und Drehbeen”. Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 1975). In the family’s possession ever since. EXHIBITION: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kunst- und Gewerbehaus Franz und Philine Vogeler, Worpswede, July 1914 (no catalog). Ausstellung von Werken neuerer Kunst aus Hamburger Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle Hamburg, 1917, cat. no. 73. Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), Galerie St. Etienne, New York, March–April 1958, cat. no. 5. Paula Modersohn-Becker, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main, Feb. 27–Apr. 12, 1975, cat. no. 7 (illustrated). Paula Modersohn-Becker zum hundertsten Geburtstag, Kunsthalle Bremen and Böttcherstraße, Bremen, Feb. 8–Apr. 4, 1976; Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, Sept. 25–Nov. 21, 1976, cat. no. 64 (with a label on the reverse of the canvas). Paula Modersohn-Becker: Die Landschaften, Kunsthalle Bremen (exhibition marking the 75th anniversary of the artist’s death), Nov. 21, 1982–Mar. 20, 1983, cat. no. 47 (with illustration). LITERATURE: Günter Busch, Milena Schicketanz, Wolfgang Werner, Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876–1907. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II, Munich 1998, CR no. 329 (with b/w illustration, p. 229). - - Alfred Werner, “A Woman of Valor,” in: The American-German Review, Vol. 28, Philadelphia 1962, No. 4, pp. 7–11 (with illustration, p. 9). Liselotte von Reinken, Paula Modersohn-Becker in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, Reinbek near Hamburg 1983, p. 78. Called up: December 4, 2026 - ca. 18.40 h +/- 20 min.

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