Year 1906 (1906) Artist Paula Modersohn-Becker | Medium tempera on canvas Created 1906 | |
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Dimensions 101.8 cm × 70.2 cm (40.1 in × 27.6 in) Location Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen Similar The Fountain of Youth, Miguel de Cervantes, Portrait of a young woman w, Die Malerin mit Kamelien, Landscape with Birch trunks | ||
Self-Portrait on the sixth wedding anniversary (German: Selbstbildnis am 6. Hochzeitstag) is a painting by the German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker from 1906.
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Painting
Self-Portrait on the sixth anniversary of marriage was painted in Paris. She had moved from Worpswede near Bremen in Germany in February 1906. Modersohn-Becker had decided to leave her husband and Worpswede forever, and devote herself entirely to art. This self-portrait was painted in the spring. She is turned to the right in front of the viewer and she watches the viewer with a searching and questioning look. She has a white cloth on her hip. Her upper body is naked and on her neck she wears an amber necklace.
When Paula Modersohn-Becker painted this self-portrait, she was not pregnant, as the picture shows.
Paula Modersohn-Becker painted, during the summer of 1906 in Paris, another nude self-portrait. They are in the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland. As far as we know, these were not shown during her lifetimeto outsiders, but they became known after her death in November 1907.
Provenance
The painting was owned by Paula Modersohn-Becker's mother in 1908. In 1916 it was owned by the daughter Tille Modersohn and was loaned to Bernhard Hoetger in Worpswede. In 1927, it was deposited by Ludwig Roselius of Paula Becker-Modersohn-Haus in Bremen, Germany. It was purchased in 1988 and is today the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen.