Woman in Profile, Turned Right

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1898/99

Paula Modersohn-Becker
German, 1876-1907

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paula Modersohn-Becker
Title: Woman in Profile, Turned Right
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1898–1899
Medium: Charcoal on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 46.7 × 65.4 cm (18 7/16 × 25 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by The Donnelley Family
Reference Number: 1978.26
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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.
Anne Röver-Kann and Wolfgang Werner, Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1876-1907: Werkverzeichnis der Handzeichnungen (München: Hirmer Verlag, 2023), E III/85.

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.
New York City, Neue Galerie, “Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me”, June 6 - September 9, 2024, Art Institute of Chicago, October 12, 2024 - January 12, 2025, pp. 50, 65 (ill.) 74 (ill.), cat. 8, cat. by Jay Clarke and Jill Lloyd, et. al.

Sold by Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1978.

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