Lot 255 R

Paula Modersohn-Becker - Armenhäuslerin im Garten sitzend (Old Woman from the Poorhouse sitting in the Garden)

Auction 979 - overview Cologne
31.05.2011, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 100.000 € - 120.000 €
Result: 98.010 € (incl. premium)
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Oil on cardboard 32/32.5 x 43.7 cm, framed. Monogrammed P.M.B. in reddish brown lower left. - On verso confirmed by Otto Modersohn ''Dieses Bild stammt von Paula Modersohn Becker. 17. IV.20." (This picture is by Paula Modersohn Becker. 17. IV.20) in pencil. - With tiny retouches in the face and on the right hand. With thumbtack holes in the corners, the cardboard partially mounted onto wood.

Busch/Schicketanz/Werner 717

Provenance

Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Düsseldorf (1920); Bob Gésinus-Visser, Witten (ca. 1930); Peter Emil Noelle, Witten (1937); private possession, Basel (1968); Galerie Beyeler, Basel (with label on frame cardboard); Galerie Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf (1979); private collection, Switzerland

Exhibitions

Witten 1936 (Märkisches Museum), Ausstellung der Wittener Privatsammlung von Bob Gésinus-Visser; Hagen 1951 (Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum), Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907, cat. nr. 27