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Paula Modersohn-Becker
Stillleben mit Eierbecher und grünem Henkeltopf, Um 1905.
Oil tempera on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 58,000 Sold:
€ 77,400 / $ 89,784 (incl. surcharge)
Paula Modersohn-Becker
1876 - 1907
Stillleben mit Eierbecher und grünem Henkeltopf. Um 1905.
Oil tempera on canvas.
18.7 x 22.4 cm (7.3 x 8.8 in).
The work is listed as no. 22 in the catalog of the artist's works compiled by Otto Modersohn in 1921. [CH]].
• Formerly owned by sculptor Clara Rilke-Westhoff, a friend of Paula Modersohn-Becker.
• First exhibited in 1920 (Kunsthalle Bremen, Paula Modersohn-Becker memorial exhibition).
• After her third trip to Paris around 1905, the artist increasingly devoted herself to tranquil still lifes with minimalist forms and colors.
• Still lifes from this period are part of important museum collections, including the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover, and the Kunsthalle Bremen.
PROVENANCE: Otto Modersohn (1865–1943), Worpswede/Fischerhude (from the artist).
Clara Rilke-Westhoff Collection (1878–1954), Fischerhude (from the 1920s).
Ruth Rilke Collection (1901–1972), Weimar (from the aforementioned).
Private collection (from 1959).
Wolfgang Werner Art Dealership, Bremen/Berlin.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Memorial exhibition Paula Modersohn-Becker. Paintings, Kunsthalle Bremen, April to May 1920, Journal of the Kunsthalle Bremen, No. 656.
Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen, April to May 1921, no catalog.
Hermes & Co., Frankfurt am Main, no date (with a label on the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Günter Busch, Milena Schicketanz, Wolfgang Werner, Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, vol. II, Munich 1998, CR no. 611 (with b/w illustration).
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Gert Claußnitzer, Paula Modersohn-Becker, in: Art magazine series “Maler und Werk,” Dresden 1986 (with color illustration, no. 12).
"Paula's brilliant still lifes and sketches are the boldest and best in terms of color that have ever been painted here in Worpswede.“
Otto Modersohn on his wife's still lifes, diary, December 20, 1905
1876 - 1907
Stillleben mit Eierbecher und grünem Henkeltopf. Um 1905.
Oil tempera on canvas.
18.7 x 22.4 cm (7.3 x 8.8 in).
The work is listed as no. 22 in the catalog of the artist's works compiled by Otto Modersohn in 1921. [CH]].
• Formerly owned by sculptor Clara Rilke-Westhoff, a friend of Paula Modersohn-Becker.
• First exhibited in 1920 (Kunsthalle Bremen, Paula Modersohn-Becker memorial exhibition).
• After her third trip to Paris around 1905, the artist increasingly devoted herself to tranquil still lifes with minimalist forms and colors.
• Still lifes from this period are part of important museum collections, including the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover, and the Kunsthalle Bremen.
PROVENANCE: Otto Modersohn (1865–1943), Worpswede/Fischerhude (from the artist).
Clara Rilke-Westhoff Collection (1878–1954), Fischerhude (from the 1920s).
Ruth Rilke Collection (1901–1972), Weimar (from the aforementioned).
Private collection (from 1959).
Wolfgang Werner Art Dealership, Bremen/Berlin.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Memorial exhibition Paula Modersohn-Becker. Paintings, Kunsthalle Bremen, April to May 1920, Journal of the Kunsthalle Bremen, No. 656.
Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen, April to May 1921, no catalog.
Hermes & Co., Frankfurt am Main, no date (with a label on the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Günter Busch, Milena Schicketanz, Wolfgang Werner, Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, vol. II, Munich 1998, CR no. 611 (with b/w illustration).
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Gert Claußnitzer, Paula Modersohn-Becker, in: Art magazine series “Maler und Werk,” Dresden 1986 (with color illustration, no. 12).
"Paula's brilliant still lifes and sketches are the boldest and best in terms of color that have ever been painted here in Worpswede.“
Otto Modersohn on his wife's still lifes, diary, December 20, 1905
From the 1920s onwards, the painting is owned by sculptor Clara Rilke-Westhoff (1878–1954), a friend of Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Paula Modersohn-Becker with her friend Clara Rilke-Westhoff in her studio in Worpswede, ca. 1900. © Barkenhoff-Stiftung Worpswede (inv. HVM001974)
275
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Stillleben mit Eierbecher und grünem Henkeltopf, Um 1905.
Oil tempera on canvas
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 58,000 Sold:
€ 77,400 / $ 89,784 (incl. surcharge)
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