About the Artwork
Seated Old Woman
between 1900 and 1902
Paula Modersohn-Becker
1876-1907
German
Unknown
Etching and aquatint printed in black-green ink on cream wove paper
Plate: 7 3/8 × 5 3/4 inches (18.7 × 14.6 cm) Sheet: 11 1/2 × 9 5/8 inches (29.2 × 24.4 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Museum Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
2003.84
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed, lower left corner: f. Paula Modersohm-Becker | O. Modersohm
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: [illegible, possibly Felsing]
Provenance
2003-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Wilkinson, MaryAnn. "A Great Simplicity of Form: Two Works by Paula Modersohn-Becker." Bulletin of the DIA 80, no. 1/2 (2006): p. 28 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Seated Old Woman, between 1900 and 1902, etching and aquatint printed in black-green ink on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 2003.84.
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