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MODERSOHN-BECKER, Paula: Still life with bowl and milk jug

🖼 Still life with bowl and milk jug, 1903
Bremen, Germany

Soft brushwork renders everyday ceramics—a cream bowl and milk jug—in warm, earthy tones against a muted background. Modersohn-Becker elevates humble domestic objects with Post-Impressionist simplicity, pioneering modernist still life while challenging early 1900s conventions about women artists' subjects.

The Story of Art
The Story of Art
E.H. Gombrich
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