LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on cardboard

Measurements:

25.24 in. (64.10 cm.) (height) by 18.62 in. (47.30 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

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". - On reverse at upper left with an old paper label fragment and further figures, partly illegible, as well as with the underlined monogramme "OM"

Condition:

framed; The cardboard slightly irregularly cut and somewhat wavy, with few older retouchings; professionally restored

Exhibited:

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.

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)

Provenance:

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