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Paula Modersohn-Becker

Birkenstamm vor Landschaft mit Haus (Birch trunk in front of landscape with house)

Lot closes

December 10, 01:21 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 EUR

Starting Bid

80,000 EUR

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Lot Details

Description

Paula Modersohn-Becker

1876 - 1907

Birkenstamm vor Landschaft mit Haus (Birch trunk in front of landscape with house)

dated 1900 (lower centre)

oil on cardboard

72.5 by 38.3 cm.

28½ by 18¾ in.

Executed in 1900.

Kornfeld & Klipstein Bern, 17-19 Juni 1965, lot 715

Axel Springer, Berlin (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above in the late 90s by the present owner

Hamburg, Altonaer Museum, Tokio, Daimaru Museum, Osaka, Navio Museum, Asahikawa, Hokkaido Museum of Art and Kumamoto, Prefectural Museum, Das Licht des Nordens. Skandinavische und norddeutsche Malerei zwischen 1870 und 1920, 1993 – 1994, no. 96, p. 166, illustrated in color (titled: Birke vor Bauernhof)

Günter Busch, Milena Schicketanz & Wolfgang Werner, Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Munich, 1998, vol. II, no. 144, illustrated p. 111

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