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Still-Life with a Green Flower Vase
Paula Modersohn-Becker · c. 1902
Provenance
Ownership history
- Wanda Frischen-Carus (1888-1946), Bremen and Berlin, from 1908; by descent to her daughter Vera Hamilton (1891-1974), New York; sold to Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, by 1959 [New York 1959 exh. cat.]; sold to the Art Institute, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Bremen, 1908, cat. 704.
- Bremen, Kunsthalle, "Leihausstellung von Gemalden, Zeichnungen und Bildwerken aus Bremischem Privatbesitz," 1909, cat. 218.
- Bremen, 1913, cat. 141.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Art Nouveau; Art and Design at the Turn of the Century," June 6-September 6, 1960, cat. 195; also Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, October 13-December 12, 1960; Los Angeles County Museum, January 17-March 5, 1961; and the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 1-May 15, 1961.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, November 13, 1998-May 23, 1999.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me", October 12, 2024 - January 12, 2025, pp. 152-3, 154 (ill.). cat. 63, cat. by Jay Clarke and Jill Lloyd, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Gustav Pauli, Paula Modershon-Becker (Munich, 1922), p. 76, no. 221a.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1961), cat. 2G11.
- The Letters and Journals of Paula Modersohn-Becker, translated and annotated by J. Diane Radycki (Metuchen, N.J., 1980), n.p. (ill.).
- Peter J. Harke, Stilleben von Paula Modersohn-Becker (Worpsweder, 1985), p. 86 (ill.).
- Günter Busch, Milena Schicketanz, and Wolfgang Werner, Paula Modersohn Becker 1876-1907: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde Band, II (Munich, 1998), p. 244, no. 357 (ill).
- Paula Modersohn-Becker und die Kunst in Paris um 1900: von Cezanne bis Picasso, exh. cat. (Bremen, 2007), pp. 108 and 199, fig. 8.
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