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Woman in Profile, Turned Right
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. 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.
Publications
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.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Paula Modersohn-Becker / German, 1876-1907
- Date
- 1898/99
- Medium
- Charcoal on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 46.7 × 65.4 cm (18 7/16 × 25 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by The Donnelley Family
- Accession no.
- 1978.26
Provenance
Sold by Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1978.
More by Paula Modersohn-Becker in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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