Seven Trees

Paula Modersohn-Becker

ca. 1900–1902 · Charcoal on paper · Modern and Contemporary Art

This spontaneous drawing is not typical of the stolid peasant life depicted by Modersohn-Becker. As a young woman, Becker attended the same Berlin drawing school as did Käthe Kollwitz. Becker married the painter Otto Modersohn, and later hoped to leave him, and Germany, for Paris. But she died there, three weeks after giving birth, not yet thirty years old.

Artist

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Date

ca. 1900–1902

Medium

Charcoal on paper

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006