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MODERSOHN-BECKER, Paula: Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand

🖼 Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, 1907
New York, USA

Soft brushwork renders a woman's direct gaze, holding delicate flowers against her body in earthy tones. Modersohn-Becker's self-portrait challenged early modernism's male dominance, asserting female artistic identity through intimate vulnerability and botanical symbolism.

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