Lot 19
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Paula Modersohn-Becker

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Description

  • Paula Modersohn-Becker
  • BRUSTBILD EINES ITALIENISCHEN MÄDCHENS IN ROTEM KLEID (PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN GIRL IN A RED DRESS)
  • dated 06 (lower left)
  • oil on board
  • 34 by 30.3cm., 13 13 3/8 by 11 7/8 in.

Provenance

Bernhard Hoetger, Worpswede (1913)
Kunsthaus Fischer, Bielefeld
Ernst Heyer, Bielefeld (1920s)
Sale: Lempertz, Cologne, 1959, lot 185
Alice and Otto Schrag, Baden-Baden (acquired in 1959; sale: Ketterer, Munich, 30th May 1989, lot 194)
Lafayette Parke Gallery, New York (acquired by 1989)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Hagen, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907, 1951, no. 35
Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, Aus Karlsruher Privatbesitz, 1961, no. 115, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Freiburg, Augustiner Museum, Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, no. 84, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Gustav Pauli, Paula-Modersohn-Becker, Leipzig, 1919, vol. I, no. 115 (titled Kopf eines dunkeläugigen Mädchens)
Oskar Schürer, 'Das Werk der Paula Modersohn-Becker', in Der Cicerone, September 1923, illustrated p. 824
Oskar Schürer, 'Das Werk der Paula Modersohn-Becker', in Jahrbuch der jungen Kunst, 1923, vol. IV, illustrated p. 72
Biermann, 1927, no. 25, illustrated
Günter Busch, Milena Schicketanz and Wolfgang Werner, Paula Modersohn-Bekker 1876-1907. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Munich, 1998, vol. II, no. 638, illustrated p. 459