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MODERSOHN-BECKER, Paula: Self-Portrait as a Half-Length Nude with Amber Necklace II

🖼 Self-Portrait as a Half-Length Nude with Amber Necklace II, 1906
Basel, Switzerland

Soft brushwork renders a bare-shouldered woman gazing directly outward, amber beads draped across her chest against muted ochre tones. Modersohn-Becker's unflinching self-portrayal challenged early twentieth-century conventions about female nudity and artistic agency, pioneering Expressionist intimacy.

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