MODERSOHN-BECKER, PAULA1876 Dresden - 1907 Worpswede


Title: Birke vor Herbstlandschaft.
Date: 1899.
Technique: Oil on card.
Mounting: Mounted to card.
Measurement: 54,5 x 40cm.
Notation: Monogrammed lower left: PMB. As well as dated with difficulty legible lower left (presumably by a hand other than that of the artist): 1899.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftmans frame.


Verso there is a handwritten confirmation of authenticity by Otto Modersohn: "Hiermit bestätige ich, daß dieses Bild von der Hand Paula Modersohn-Beckers stammt, 17. Juni 1926."

Provenance:
- Private collection Israel (1930s)
- Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 9th/10th December 1986, lot 797
- Private ownership
- Galerie Neher, Essen (label)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (in 2002 acquired from the previous owner)
- Independent foundation in the care of the German Foundation Centre, Essen

Literature:
- Busch, Günter/Schicketanz, Milena/Werner, Wolfgang: Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1876-1907 - Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. II, Munich 1998, cat. rais. no. 138, ill.


- Paula Modersohn-Becker was one of the first truly emancipated women painters in Germany
- Typical example of radical reduction in the artist's work
- Early work, probably from the first period in Worpswede.