DETAILS
- Artist
- Paula Modersohn-Becker
- Date
- 1894
- Medium
- charcoal with stumping
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Drawings
- Culture
- Germany, 19th century
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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THE ARTIST
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker, an early German Expressionist, broke artistic conventions by being the first known woman to paint nude self-portraits.
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