ID 659752
Lot 5 | Sitzender Junge mit Mädchen auf dem Schoß
Estimate value
€ 200 000 – 300 000
1876 Dresden - 1907 Worpswede
Title: Sitzender Junge mit Mädchen auf dem Schoß.
Date: Ca. 1903.
Technique: Tempera and oil on cardboard.
Mounting: Mounted on card.
Measurement: 40 x 52cm.
Notation: Confirmed verso on the cardboard: Original von Paula Modersohn-Becker, Fischerhude, 5 VIII 23, Otto Modersohn.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Otto Modersohn
- Alois Heinemann, Osnabrück (acquired through Martha Vogeler in the early 1940s)
- Private collection Osnabrück
- Graphisches Kabinett-Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen
- Private collection Berlin (acquired from the aforementioned in 1996)
Exhibitions:
- Städtisches Museum, Osnabrück 1949, cat. no. 40, ill.
- Otto Modersohn Museum, Fischerhude 2007
- Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr 2014, p. 19, ill. 61
Literature:
- Busch, Günther/Werner, Wolfgang (eds.): Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1876-1907 - Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. II, Munich 1998, cat. rais. no. 399, ill.
- Wolff-Thomsen, Ulrike (ed.): Paula Modersohn-Becker & Otto Modersohn - Die Amrum-Reise 1903, Alkersum/Föhr 2014, p. 19, ill. 61
- The portraits of Worpswede peasant children are the artist's most popular and sought-after motifs, which today are counted among the masterpieces of European art
- She expresses the soulful depths of the child's mind in a unique way
- Through her holistic artistic thinking, she develops an abstract pictorial language that can only be regarded as pioneering.
| Artist: | Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 - 1907) |
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| Auction house category: | Modern Art |
| Artist: | Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 - 1907) |
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| Auction house category: | Modern Art |
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