About This Artwork
Paula Modersohn-Becker
German, 1876-1907
Portrait of a Peasant Woman, 1898/99
Charcoal on cream wove paper
467 x 654 mm
Restricted gift of The Donnelley Family, 1978.26
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Allan Frumkin Gallery, October 1980.
New York, Allan Frumkin Gallery, 1981.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 176-177, cat. 81 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
Publication History
Gillian Perry, Paula Modersohn-Becker: Her Life and Work (New York, 1979), p. 93 (ill.).
Paula Modersohn-Becker, The Letters and Journals of Paula Modersohn-Becker, (New Jersey, 1980) (ill.).
Christa Murken-Altrogge, Paula Modersohn-Becker: Leben und Werk (Cologne, 1980), p. 111 (ill.).
Martha Tedeschi, Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983 (1985), no. 81
Clint Brown, Cheryl McLean, Drawing from Life (Fort Worth, 1992), pp. 191-192 (ill.).
Howard Smagula, Creative Drawing, 2nd ed. (London, 2001), pp. 126-127, fig. 5.24.
Ownership History
Sold by Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1978.