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Michael West (1908-1991) Painter (US) - The artist, née Corinne Michelle West

“CLOSE-UP” brings together nine women artists whose work shares a focus on the depiction of the human figure in the form of portraits and self-portraits, and who occupy prominent positions within the history of modern art from 1870 to the present day. The exhibition, on view now through January 2 at Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland, centers on the artists’ specific perception, on their personal vision of the world that finds expression in the portraits of themselves and others. By ...

In her first American museum retrospective, Paula Modersohn-Becker looks bracingly modern.

Paula Modersohn-Becker. 1876-1907. Bremen. Canal dans les marais. Canal in the swamps. vers 1900. Bremen Kunsthalle.

Italian woman with a plate in her raised hand is an Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting created by Paula Modersohn-Becker in 1906. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Portraits and Fruit.

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Ahead of ‘Making Modernism’, the Royal Academy’s exhibition of Germany’s pioneering women artists, writer Rachel Cusk reflects on how they emerged from the shadow of their male peers.

Darrieussecq and Zambreno on the process of reviving Paula Modersohn-Becker’s reputation, motherhood and art, and women’s friendships.

With her bold experiments in subject matter and brushwork, Paula Modersohn-Becker was among the painters who created modernism…