Paula Modersohn-Becker
Dresden 1876 – 1907 Worpswede
”Birkenstämme, rechts ein rotes Haus”. Circa 1901
Tempera on cardboard. 56 × 33 cm. (22 × 13 in.) On the reverse confirmed by Tille Modersohn, the daughter of the artist, in pencil: Ich bezeuge, daß diese Arbeit von der Hand meiner Mutter Paula Modersohn-Becker gemalt ist, Fischerhude 1949. There too a label of the exhibition Kiel 1921 (see below). Catalogue raisonné: Busch/Schicketanz/Werner 231. [3236] Framed
ProvenanceOtto Modersohn, Fischerhude / Tille Modersohn, Fischerhude / Private Collection, USA (acquired in the 1950s, thence by descent to the present owner)
EUR 50.000 – 70.000
USD 53,800 – 75,300
ExhibitionPaula Modersohn-Becker. Gemälde. Kiel, Kunsthaus „Tom Kyle“, 1921, cat. no. 31 [= opening exhibition] / Niedersächsische Landschaften seit 1800. Hanover, Kunstverein, 1953, cat. no. 249
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