Charcoal sketch from Paula Modersohn-Becker's Old Peasant Praying, 1905.
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 – 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. In a brief career, cut short by an embolism at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity. Using bold forays into subject matter and chromatic color choices, she and fellow-artists Picasso and Matisse introduced the world to modernism at the start of the twentieth century.
