MODERSOHN-BECKER, PAULA1876 Dresden - 1907 WorpswedeTitle: Sitzender Junge mit Mädchen auf dem Schoß.Date: Ca. 1903.Technique: Tempera and oil on cardboard.Mounting: Mounted on card.Measurement: 40 x 52cm.Notation: Confirmed verso on the cardboard: Original von Paula Modersohn-Becker, Fischerhude, 5 VIII 23, Otto Modersohn.Frame/Pedestal: Framed.Provenance:- Otto Modersohn- Alois Heinemann, Osnabrück (acquired through Martha Vogeler in the early 1940s)- Private collection Osnabrück- Graphisches Kabinett-Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen- Private collection Berlin (acquired from the aforementioned in 1996)Exhibitions:- Städtisches Museum, Osnabrück 1949, cat. no. 40, ill.- Otto Modersohn Museum, Fischerhude 2007- Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr 2014, p. 19, ill. 61Literature:- Busch, Günther/Werner, Wolfgang (eds.): Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1876-1907 - Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. II, Munich 1998, cat. rais. no. 399, ill.- Wolff-Thomsen, Ulrike (ed.): Paula Modersohn-Becker & Otto Modersohn - Die Amrum-Reise 1903, Alkersum/Föhr 2014, p. 19, ill. 61- The portraits of Worpswede peasant children are the artist's most popular and sought-after motifs, which today are counted among the masterpieces of European art- She expresses the soulful depths of the child's mind in a unique way- Through her holistic artistic thinking, she develops an abstract pictorial language that can only be regarded as pioneering.Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. Dimensions 40 x 52cm Artist or Maker Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876 Dresden - 1907 Worpswede