"A small, tightly focused self-portrait by German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who was long written out of art history but who has recently come in for renewed attention, made history at Berlin's Grisebach auction house on Thursday. Selbstbildnis nach halblinks ( Self-Portrait Looking Slightly Left), from 1906, measures just 10½ inches high, but fetched €1.3 million ($1.5 million) including fees, more than quintupling its low estimate, to sell to an unnamed private collector in Europe."
"The price more than doubles the artist's previous record, established at Grisebach in 2013, when her ca. 1904 painting Auf einem Stuhl sitzendes Mädchen mit Kind auf dem Schoss vor Landschaft ( A Girl Sitting on a Chair with a Child on Her Lap, In Front of a Landscape) sold for €525,000 (just under $714,000 at the time), more than doubling its low estimate."
A 1906 self-portrait by Paula Modersohn-Becker sold at Grisebach in Berlin for €1.3 million including fees, far exceeding its low estimate. The work measured just 10½ inches high and was acquired by an unnamed private collector in Europe. The result more than doubles the artist's previous auction record of €525,000 set in 2013 at the same house. The painting has been shown at major institutions including Munich's Haus der Kunst, the Lenbachhaus, the Museum of Modern Art in Hayama, and the Museum Ludwig. Institutional recognition increased after a 2022 Schirn Kunsthalle retrospective and a 2017 MoMA/Neue Galerie acquisition.
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