Paula Modersohn-Becker - Sitzendes Kind an einer Birke: Kind mit Frucht (Child Sitting next to Birch Tree: Child with Fruit). Verso: Bauernmädchen am Hang vor wolkigem Himmel (Peasant Girl on Hillside against Cloudy Sky) - image-1
Paula Modersohn-Becker - Sitzendes Kind an einer Birke: Kind mit Frucht (Child Sitting next to Birch Tree: Child with Fruit). Verso: Bauernmädchen am Hang vor wolkigem Himmel (Peasant Girl on Hillside against Cloudy Sky) - image-2
Paula Modersohn-Becker - Sitzendes Kind an einer Birke: Kind mit Frucht (Child Sitting next to Birch Tree: Child with Fruit). Verso: Bauernmädchen am Hang vor wolkigem Himmel (Peasant Girl on Hillside against Cloudy Sky) - image-1Paula Modersohn-Becker - Sitzendes Kind an einer Birke: Kind mit Frucht (Child Sitting next to Birch Tree: Child with Fruit). Verso: Bauernmädchen am Hang vor wolkigem Himmel (Peasant Girl on Hillside against Cloudy Sky) - image-2

Lot 205 Dα

Paula Modersohn-Becker - Sitzendes Kind an einer Birke: Kind mit Frucht (Child Sitting next to Birch Tree: Child with Fruit). Verso: Bauernmädchen am Hang vor wolkigem Himmel (Peasant Girl on Hillside against Cloudy Sky)

Auction 997 - overview Cologne
22.05.2012, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 180.000 € - 220.000 €
Result: 390.400 € (incl. premium)

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Sitzendes Kind an einer Birke: Kind mit Frucht (Child Sitting next to Birch Tree: Child with Fruit). Verso: Bauernmädchen am Hang vor wolkigem Himmel (Peasant Girl on Hillside against Cloudy Sky)
1905

Oil on cardboard 64.1 x 47.3/47.6 cm Framed. Dated 05 in reddish brown lower right. On reverse at upper left half of composition confirmed by Otto Modersohn in pencil in German script: "I hereby confirm that this picture “Child with fruit“ originates from the hand of Paula Modersohn-Becker". -Verso upper left with an old paper label fragment and further figures, partly illegible, as well as with the underlined monogramme "OM". - The cardboard slightly irregularly cut and somewhat wavy, with few older retouchings; professionally restored.

Catalogue Raisonné

Busch 591; Pauli (1922) 62 a; Otto Modersohn Verzeichnis (1921) 15

Certificate

With a photo-certificate by Günter Busch, Bremen, dated 8 February 1989 (in copy)

Provenance

Otto Modersohn; private possession, Zwickau in Bohemia (1923); Galerie Hermann Abels, Cologne (1930s); private possession; Galerie Neher, Essen (1984); private collection Northrhine-Westfalia

Literature

Gustav Pauli, Paula Modersohn-Becker, München 1922 (2nd ed.), nr. 62 a; Galerie Hermann Abels, Katalog Meisterwerke deutscher Kunst, Cologne without year (Kind mit Apfel/Child with Apple)

Exhibitions

Bremen 1920 (Kunsthalle Bremen), Gedächtnis-Ausstellung Paula Modersohn-Becker, Journal der Bremer Kunsthalle nr. 649; Berlin/ Dresden/ Hannover 1922 (Kronprinzenpalais/ Galerie Emil Richter/ Kestner-Gesellschaft), Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gemälde, Pastelle, Zeichnungen (without cat.); Düsseldorf 1970/1971 (Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig), cat. p. 52 with ill.